Easter and Holy Week
Rare Overlap of Holy Days Shows Jerusalem’s Promise and Problems
JERUSALEM — On Friday morning, as clashes flared at the Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, Muslims inside and outside the mosque were fasting for the 14th day of Ramadan. A few hundred yards away, Jews were burning leavened bread, a traditional ceremony that occurs just before Passover, which formally started on Friday […]
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Clashes Erupt at Jerusalem Holy Site on Day With Overlapping Holidays
Video Dozens of people were injured in fighting between Israeli riot police and Palestinians at the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, on the first day of a rare convergence of Ramadan, Easter and Passover.CreditCredit…Mahmoud Illean/Associated Press JERUSALEM — More than 150 people were injured on Friday at one of Jerusalem’s […]
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The Most Flavorful Easter Ham Starts on the Stove
At the chef Gabriel Kreuther’s New York City restaurant, reclaimed wood beams ringing the dining room evoke the timber homes of Alsace, a French region bordering Germany. Mr. Kreuther grew up there, on a farm where he and his family slaughtered one pig a year and preserved many of the parts, including the hind legs, […]
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