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Rein in Bitan

Values such as freedom of speech should not be sacrificed for the sake of political expediency. Popularity is not the sine qua non of politics.

November 6, 2016: Soldiers under threat

Attacking members of the IDF while accepting state benefits, including yeshiva stipends and IDF protection from terrorist attacks, is immoral.

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A visionary solution for the water issue

I am a strong believer that peace and prosperity can be brought about through economic cooperation.

By TAREK EL DIWANY
Reality check: Paying for a free press

For Netanyahu, whose role models these days seem to be either Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Russia’s Vladimir Putin, journalistic independence is a non-starter.

By JEFF BARAK
Comment: Beware of the drip, drip of religious fascism in Asia

Unfortunately instead of encouraging tolerance many governments are creating more blasphemy laws and encouraging more attacks on minorities.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN
November 4: Readers react to this week’s incident at Kotel

Should formal, non-Halachic forms of Jewish worship be permitted in the same space and in the presence of Orthodox worshipers?

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Campus Farhud

You fight bigotry and fanaticism by standing tall, even when you’re afraid. We will continue spreading a message of hope – just as Israel does within the darkness of the Middle East.

By HEN MAZZIG
Hands off Gilo

The expansion of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods to accommodate the city’s growing population is a matter for the municipality.

By JPOST EDITORIAL
Discovering Afghanistan’s 1,000-year-old Jewish life

The discovery of the Afghan Jewish documents also raises the timely question whether more treasure troves of Jewish historical items in the Middle East and Central Asia are waiting to be unearthed.

By SARA Y. AHARON
November 6, 2016: Whose Wall is it?

At the Kotel, people ought to be experiencing the presence of God and the love of His word.

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A bird’s eye view on the US election

America is a nation of fearless pioneers that has become stagnant and reactionary. Now it must become bold again.

By MICHAEL LAITMAN
What is important for Israel in the US elections?

The Israeli public deserves better. The press is not meant to be controlled by any single entity.

By YAAKOV KATZ
Column One: Trump’s true opponent

If Trump wins on Tuesday, it will be the establishment he defeats.

By CAROLINE B. GLICK
Cyber challenges

Israel is in a unique position to serve as a world leader in cyber security and is doing a pretty good job of it.

By JPOST EDITORIAL
Hillary Clinton — a strong leader for America and the world

Hillary is resilient, smart and understands national security.

By JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN
My word: The bullet, the ballot, and Guy Fawkes

Looking at the US elections, the joke could be as international as Guy Fawkes’s mask. But violence and vendettas are not the answer.

By LIAT COLLINS
Remembering Yitzhak

The night of Yitzhak’s murder was painful to the whole nation.

By AMIR PERETZ
Know Comment: Israel is the sane, stable democracy

A lament for America, sullied by a loutish election campaign.

By DAVID M. WEINBERG
The devil we don’t know

Donald Trump has gone out of his way to appear more pro-Israel than Hillary Clinton, but with an isolationist, transactional foreign policy, what will his positions really be?

By ILAN EVYATAR
Gambling with their lives

In short, this column was not intended to be a form of intimidation and as a way to frighten Israeli tourists from vacationing in Egypt.

By LIOR AKERMAN
Can a pro-Israel activist find space in the UK?

No name will change the fact that this is a country where every square inch is steeped and saturated in Jewish history.

By PINI DUNNER
Grumpy Old Man: Embedded boneheads

Trump surrogates play fast and loose with reality – a great ingredient when US cable networks seat them alongside legitimate pundits for panel discussions.

By LAWRENCE RIFKIN
Hope keeps us warm

For three weeks, women marched throughout the country demanding a return to diplomatic negotiations and an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By SOPHIE SCHOR
Poland’s true story

A recent Polish law that criminalizes Holocaust-related blame presents an offensive, distorted narrative about the nation’s wartime history and its coming to terms with the past.

By DAVID SARNA GALDI
A Dose of Nuance: What we don’t know and what we do

The story that we tell of Herzl, Nordau, Bialik, Alterman, Ben-Gurion, Rabin, Golda and the like is no longer most Israeli most Israelis’ narrative.

By DANIEL GORDIS
Can the Cubs' World Series win bring about Middle East peace?

Personal reflection: The Cubs suffered through 108 years of disappointment; the Jewish people have endured nearly two millennia of affliction.

By GIL HOFFMAN
Obama: Don’t destroy the peace process by turning it over to the UN

The UN has done nothing to reassure Israel that it is capable of offering an unbiased forum for negotiations.

By ALAN DERSHOWITZ
A crisis of confidence

Let NATO banish Turkey from its midst.

By ILAN MANOR
Washington Watch: Donald Trump, Speaker of the House?

Donald, this could be your chance to Make Congress Great Again.

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD
The Chicago Cubs’s Jewish problem

By enjoying the moment alongside his team, Bryant makes the past seem “real” again, essentially reliving the history of the team.

By JONATHAN L. MILEVSKY
Letters to the Editor: Making it clear

I suggest that we in Israel have an obligation to state the facts.

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Distancing Israeli Arab moderates instead of drawing them closer

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