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Two days after being elected as the Jewish Agency’s new chairman last week, Doron Almog spoke at the biennial conference of Israel’s Reform...
On Monday evening, while the coalition leaders were trying to cajole Mazen Ghanaim and Ghaide Rinawie Zoabi not to vote against the West Bank...
On Monday evening, while the coalition leaders were trying to cajole Mazen Ghanaim and Ghaide Rinawie Zoabi not to vote against the West Bank...
On Monday evening, while the coalition leaders were trying to cajole Mazen Ghanaim and Ghaide Rinawie Zoabi not to vote against the West Bank...
A sleepy suburb of Petah Tikva has become in recent months one of Israel's most active hubs of political protest. A large tent has been erected in an...
As the crow flies, it's less than a mile from my home in Jerusalem to the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa compound and all its delights. On the ground, matters...
Next Thursday’s event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem has been circled in red ink for months on the calendars of every aspiring...
Next Thursday’s event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem has been circled in red ink for months on the calendars of every aspiring...
Next Thursday’s event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem has been circled in red ink for months on the calendars of every aspiring...
The charming little hotel I stayed at last week in Krakow offers its guests a great day-trip deal. You can tour the magnificent Wieliczka Salt Mine,...
This week for the first time in history, due to a coincidence of the Jewish and Muslim calendars, Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day,...
"In Ukraine, we’ve eliminated Covid-19." That was a remark I heard a lot last month while reporting there on the war. Of course, no one was...
The now former coalition whip, and indeed former coalition member, Idit Silman, didn’t want to go down in history as the woman who brought down a...
Over the last five weeks, Jewish organizations are undertaking numerous rescue operations, of individuals and entire communities, from the various...
On Wednesday morning, Naftali Bennett and Olaf Scholz met in Jerusalem for the first time. The two leaders have a lot in common. They both came into...
Twenty-five years ago this week, the first report I ever wrote appeared in a local Jerusalem newspaper. I’d like to say that I’ve discovered...
Some organizations are boring by their very nature. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. If their function is to create a broad sensible consensus...
The American comedian Whoopi Goldberg got in trouble twice this week for the sin of ignorance while speaking about the Holocaust on television. ...
The Torah in its bizarre and chaotic fashion gives us two very different attitudes to counting Jews. On the one hand, in the desert, Moses was...
The Torah in its bizarre and chaotic fashion gives us two very different attitudes to counting Jews. On the one hand, in the desert, Moses was...
Halakha is a wondrous thing. Seriously. A legal system that evolved from the 613 commandments originally written down in ancient Hebrew in the...
On January 6 this year, Yosef Grif was watching, like so many around the world, the scenes on television as thousands of Trump supporters stormed...
"Israel was born a Jewish state and will remain so," said Mansour Abbas at a conference on Tuesday, and immediately invited upon himself withering...
When Naftali Bennett made his international debut at the United Nations General Assembly nearly three months ago, some observers were scandalized...
On Sunday, French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour launched his new political party – Reconquête. That translates to "Reconquest" in English...
The meeting on Monday at the Communications Ministry in Jerusalem was unprecedented. A delegation of rabbis, Hassidic leaders, yeshiva deans,...
It will be the most eagerly anticipated edition in the newspaper’s history. As Friday's Yated Ne'eman drops on the doorsteps of the faithful in...
Joshua Cohen surprised me twice. The first time was when we met, at his request, one evening at the end of January 2020, in Jerusalem. He wanted to...
At the beginning of this week, Meir Shitrit was informed by a rabbi that after waiting 36 years for his missing brother Nissim to come home, he can...
Eliezer Melamed’s hardcore religious nationalist credentials are impeccable. He is the rabbi of Har Bracha, a settlement deep in the West Bank...
On Thursday morning, Knesset member Meir Porush walked in to the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee room and began chanting, loudly, verses of...
On Monday afternoon, I wrote quick-response analysis of Naftali Bennett’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly, and then promised...