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Anshel PfefferHaaretz |
One way not to feel infallible is to write a weekly column for 17 years. Looking back through these columns is an exercise in ego deflation. I was...
The open letter by Rabbi Dov Landau, who for the last year has been recognized as the spiritual leader of the "Lithuanian" stream of ultra-Orthodoxy,...
One thing I've learned in my 17 years of writing about the Diaspora and Jewish identity for this newspaper is that there are few things as crass and...
I love British general elections. I've loved them ever since, as a 5-year-old, I sat on my parents' landing secretly watching their television through...
If you spend much time following the interminable social media battles over Israel and the Jews, you'll soon see a supporter of Israel posting a...
Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to address the Israeli people on such minor matters as the war that broke out with Iran just before Passover, but somehow...
What would have happened in the early hours of Sunday morning if the United States – along with Britain, France, Germany and a number of Arab...
Fifty years ago this weekend, Golda Meir announced her resignation as the prime minister of Israel. It was six months after the end of the Yom Kippur...
In the six months that have passed since Hamas burst through the Gaza border fence and massacred Israeli communities, we have all been trying to find...
A year ago this week, Israelis took to the streets and felt that they had saved Israeli democracy. What became known as "Gallant Night," not because...
On Tuesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a closed meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "Closed"...
The decision by the former government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid to form a state commission of inquiry into the worst civilian disaster in...
The front pages of Britain's newspapers carried banner headlines Thursday reporting a record year in antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom.
Early on in the Israel-Hamas war, a few dozen ultra-Orthodox men volunteered to join the Israel Defense Forces. It was a brilliant publicity stunt and...
For Israelis who spent much of 2023 protesting against the coalition's now-aborted attempt to end the independence and dramatically weaken the powers...
When I was in Kibbutz Kfar Azza 73 days ago, as gun battles were still raging with the last stragglers who had breached the fence three days earlier...
U.S. President Joe Biden got criticized this week by the usual crowd of Israel-haters, some of them Jewish, for saying at the White House Hannukah...
Various municipalities and public institutions in North America and Britain have decided to cancel Hanukkah celebrations such as menorah lightings in...