Jerusalem Report

Moses's regrets

Moses understood that spirituality is not meant to be a selfish affair, and that one cannot leave the community behind – but that is easier said than done.

The woman who changed the story of modern art

By JUDY BOLTON-FASMAN
WRITING HIS WAY INTO EXISTENCE

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
SALAD BOWL FOR THE DESERT

By BERNARD DICHEK

SUSTAINING THE SOUL

Educator Elan Margulies says the environmental movement can create healthier and more sustainable Jewish organizations and communities.

By DAVID STROMBERG
A NATION’S TRAUMA TACKLED HEAD ON

The Israel Trauma Center for Victims of Terror and War helps people come to terms with the ‘transparent injury’ of PTSD that so many don‘t even realize they have.

By PAUL ALSTER
Soldier of faith

The IDF High Command overlooked the nationalist pietism of incoming Chief Chaplain Col. Eyal Karim and endured a storm over his comments on women and gays.

By AMOTZ ASA-EL
EXPENSIVE WAR TOY

Israel begins taking delivery of the F-35, but is it really the weapon it needs to meet future challenges, given the strategic changes in the region?

By YOSSI MELMAN
A troubling partisan gap

How much longer will the Democratic Party be able to forestall the influence of a growing chorus of unfavorable voices on Israel?

By ROBERT HORENSTEIN
Commentary: Aftershocks in Ankara

Recep Erdogan’s crackdown on the Gulen movement could change the face of Turkey

By ALON LIEL
The word of a woman

Whatever role history will play in her future life, there is a part of the bat mitzva girl that intuits the horizons that her community has opened or closed for her.

By JANICE WEIZMAN
The outpost on Oliphant Street

They left, but they are not gone.

By HAIM WATZMAN
Dark years on the Côte d’Azur

An exhibition of the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, sent to her death in Auschwitz, brings to light the role played by locals in deporting the region’s Jews in WWII.

By MICHAL LEVERTOV
Rothschild revolution:

On the fifth anniversary of the cost-of-living protests, The Report examines the movement’s successes and failures.

By SHLOMO MAITAL
The saintliness of Elie Wiesel 1928-2016

Elie Wiesel had an expression that could pass in a moment from joy and gaiety to infinite sadness.

By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY
In search of shepharad

Armed with an ignorance of all things Sephardi, Matt Nesvisky scours Spain in search of Jews, traces of Jews and memorials to Jews.

By MATT NESVISKY
Putting aside historic differences

Monks of the different denominations that share the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher put aside friction to allow restoration at two of Christianity’s holiest sites.

By JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
A new proposal for peace

The Two States One Homeland initiative calls for open borders, freedom of movement, and cross-border residency and citizenship rights for all.

By ANDREW FRIEDMAN
Africa’s duality

One of the issues Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to tackle on his African visit was the tendency of Israel’s friends on the continent to vote against it at international forums.

By ARYE ODED
A Jewish view on ‘Nature Deficit Disorder'

Leading rabbis for millennia have stressed the importance of being in nature as part and parcel of spiritual practice.

By RABBI YONATAN NERIL
A call for historical accuracy

Sir Richard Evans provides an unequivocal defense of the historical uniqueness of the Holocaust, an assertion which has increasingly come under attack in recent years.

By EFRAIM ZUROFF
The debatable laugh

Filmmaker Ferne Pearlstein takes a look at Holocaust humor on the silver screen.

By BERNARD DICHEK
Images of Jerusalem past

An exhibition at the Tower of David Museum provides a fascinating glimpse into how Jerusalem’s photographers captured the city at the turn of the 20th century.

By MORDECHAI BECK
What price Brexit?

How will Israel be affected by the decision of the United Kingdom, its third-largest trading partner, to leave the European Union?

By SHLOMO MAITAL
Worthless guarantees

Israel cannot allow itself to be stampeded into a peace agreement that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

By AMIEL UNGAR
The leadership vacuum

The parameters of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement are well known – all it would take is an Israel government courageous enough to sign up.

By GERSHON BASKIN
Is J. Edgar Hoover the model?

Gathering material on Knesset members and cabinet ministers and filing it away for possible later use is absolutely unacceptable.

By MEIR GILBOA
Striving for kedusha

The Torah commands us not to be holy, but to become holy.

By DOV LINZER
Lerner in the Mirror

Democracy, tolerance, compromise–those are luxuries that maybe Israel can afford some years down the line.

By HAIM WATZMAN
Setting the record straight

Efraim Karsh’s new book serves as a corrective to the popular narrative that all the ills of the Middle East can be traced to the perfidy of the Zionists and Western imperialists.

By TIBOR KRAUSZ
Bye bye banks

It is a crucial, open question whether Israel’s major banks will adapt quickly enough to the disruption of modern technology or become obsolete and irrelevant like the dinosaurs.

By SHLOMO MAITAL
Ally of Israel

Chloe Valdary grew up in a philo-Semitic environment and doesn’t fit into preconceived notions of 'what a black person should be.'

By DAVID STROMBERG
A victory for social change

Businesswoman Alona Barkat has transformed the fortunes of the Hapoel Beersheba soccer team, ending a 40-year wait for a championship that marks the city’s rising self-esteem.

By PATRICIA GOLAN
Trust Chakrabarti to spot ‘anti-Semitic anti-Zionism’

The current exposure of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is a throwback to the 1980s when I was actively involved in preventing the banning of university Jewish societies.

By BRYAN CHEYETTE

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