As demonstrations against Café Basimta grow, one Haredi leader said that the owner has a 'right to open on Shabbat, and we have the right to protest against it. There are plenty of secular neighborhoods in the city – let them open there'

In Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox extremists are targeting a café that opens on Shabbat. In Ramat Gan businesses have been torched or vandalized. The battle is not only over the Jewish…

Opinion: The battle over a Shabbat cafe in Jerusalem is a test of whether the city can remain Jewish without belonging to only one kind of Jew; a secular Shabbat may not follow…