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Lighthearted Hanukkah: Jokes and advice from Jews around the world

BY BARBARA SOFER — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:40:17 GMT

Here is a selection of the jokes that happily came my way.

Savor stunning views and delicious food at Jerusalem’s Mamilla Rooftop - review

BY LINDA GRADSTEIN — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:06:15 GMT

Come for the view, stay for the food

JNF and Greek Orthodox Church to pay betterment levy on Jerusalem lands

BY ARIK MIROVSKY/GLOBES/TNS — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:41:27 GMT

Following a decision by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Appeals Committee, The Jewish National Fund (JNF) and the Greek Orthodox Church must pay betterment levies on Jerusalem land.

New welfare complex opens in east Jerusalem, expected to be city's largest

BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:22:47 GMT

The opening of the complex is another step toward the establishment of the city's "Silicon Valley"—Kiryat Hi-tech plan, which is hoped will add thousands of jobs in the east of the city.

Nefesh B’Nefesh and Jerusalem Municipality host inaugural two-day ‘Shuk Olim’

BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:32:56 GMT

45 olim-owned businesses showcased and sold products to hundreds of attendees.

Despite war, Hebrew University's international students choose to remain in Israel

BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:37:07 GMT

The foreign students all agree that their Jerusalem experience during this historic time has had a profound impact on their view of Israel and the Middle East.

Solidarity in action: Female ambassadors tour Jerusalem command center

BY MAAYAN HOFFMAN — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:56:20 GMT

Female ambassadors from around the world unite on a tour of the Jerusalem Civilian Command Center (JCCC). The center has been helping to support the victims from Israel's south during the war.

Where do babies come from: New exhibition examines the options

BY BARRY DAVIS — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:43:02 GMT

Ruth Schreiber’s new exhibition spotlights many of the seeming multitude of options for becoming a parent, now facilitated by advances made in the medical and hi-tech fields.

Miss Universe contestants bring beauty to Haboydem

BY PEGGY CIDOR — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:34:05 GMT

The Miss Universe contestants modeled clothes at Haboydem, a secondhand clothing store and women’s rehabilitation center that shines a spotlight on social projects in Jerusalem.

A return trip to the train from Jerusalem

BY YAIR ASSAF-SHAPIRA — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:30:27 GMT

According to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, during the fourth quarter of 2018 a total of 409,580 passengers traveled from Jerusalem to Ben-Gurion Airport.

Jerusalem highlights: December 17 - 23

BY HAGAY HACOHEN — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:26:46 GMT

What's new in Israel's capital in the upcoming week.

Understanding Haredi society: Shas and the birth of a rebellion

BY PEGGY CIDOR — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:15:34 GMT

Sephardim, across the spectrum of religious practice, saw in Shas more than just a political party. It wasn’t only a political organization that represented them in the legislature.

The Hullegeb Festival: Breaking out in song

BY BARRY DAVIS — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:11:51 GMT

Due to take place at various venues around Jerusalem December 22-29, the event offers another opportunity to get a handle on what artistic members of the Ethiopian community have to offer/

Round-up of city affairs

BY PEGGY CIDOR — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:29:05 GMT

The newest information on Jerusalem affairs.

New trends in East Jerusalem

BY PEGGY CIDOR — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:26:04 GMT

About a year and a half has passed, and trends on the ground among the Arab residents of east Jerusalem are dramatically changing, in various aspects

Purim 2020: Exciting events around Jerusalem

BY BENJY SINGER — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:19:53 GMT

Communities throughout Jerusalem will be holding special Purim activities. Here are a selection of programs for the whole family

Satellite shed - dramatically impacting young lives

BY YAKIR FELDMAN — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:00:00 GMT

“This program is meaningful because it enables youths to develop their own creative voices and enhance skills such as: communication, active listening, teamwork, acceptance and open-mindedness."

Jerusalem's Masorti Movement: Fading future

BY ALAN ROSENBAUM — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 05:19:54 GMT

More than 50 years later, as the generation of Conservative Jews that arrived full of post-1967 Zionist ardor passes from the scene, some of Jerusalem’s Masorti synagogues are shrinking.

Doing good

BY GREER FAY CASHMAN — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:48:03 GMT

Rivlin was full of praise for the Yad Sarah organization, which he said touches almost every Israeli citizen in light of its 45th anniversary.

Jerusalem black swan

BY PEGGY CIDOR — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:32:49 GMT

The beginning was quite exciting: as part of the renewal project of the Mahaneh Yehuda area, an art gallery opened in one of the city’s premises, in the heart of the Nahlaot neighborhood.

Undercover through the lens

BY BARRY DAVIS — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:25:03 GMT

Savvy job interviewers know that life experience can be almost as an important a factor in a person’s professional development as their technical training.

The unique life story of Rabbi Berel Wein, a scholar of the past

BY ALAN ROSENBAUM — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 04:19:27 GMT

“I was not a great sportsman. So, I drifted into the library and the librarian got hold of me and ‘fed me’ books"

Thanksgiving in Jerusalem

BY BENJY SINGER — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:13:57 GMT

What olim say, happenings and turkey tips

Jewish spirituality at meditation retreats across the world

BY ARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:50:42 GMT

“Meditation was something I was aware of, but I hadn’t engaged in it at all at that time,” Jacobson-Maisels says.

It was 20 years ago today‏

BY BARRY DAVIS — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:44:22 GMT

“Twenty years! Hard to believe,” he beams when we meet in his airy office. “I look upon the festival as a child who was born and has grown up,” said Bnaya.

Calling all Jerusalem folkies

BY BARRY DAVIS — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:12:59 GMT

“We’ve had quite a few people from abroad come to play at the club,” notes Philippa Bacal, who has, basically, served as chief cook and bottle washer of the folkie enterprise for the past nine years.

Jerusalemites and visitors get a ‘Taste of the World’

BY TZVI JOFFRE — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:29:28 GMT

The Taste of the World Festival, newly arrived to Jerusalem, felt similar to the Eurovision village in Tel Aviv for the international music festival earlier this year.

So many synagogues in Jerusalem

BY JACOB SOLOMON — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:57:04 GMT

For observant Jews – and few places come more observant than Jerusalem – the Shabbat and Festivals are days out of time.

Let my people LEGO

BY RIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:09:25 GMT

He started with Tinkertoys, blocks and LEGO. “Everyone knew LEGO was my thing,” he noted. “I could sit and do LEGO all day.”

Of slihot and synagogues ‏

BY BENJY SINGER — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:56:20 GMT

One of the beauties of living in Israel is how Judaism is very much part of our daily culture.