The Jerusalem Report

Start-ups: Art, not science

For sale: Small Mideast country. Troubled neighborhood – but highly creative entrepreneurs. Serious buyers.

His heart was in journalism

Matt Nesvisky, much loved contributing editor of The Report.

The Andalusian Orchestra from Ashdod

“What the orchestra has done,” says Ben-Simon, “is to take this music, which is played in synagogues, at private parties, or as folklore, and elevated it to a next level."

How it really was!

Just a little bit of levity makes the sermons go down!

Wrestling with faith

Every year, rabbis struggle with finding the right words to connect with their followers during this time of the year and to keep it fresh.

Living luxuriously in a sukkah

Jerusalemite Avi Lazar’s Luxury Sukkahs International takes Sukkot to a new level.

Living and loving life – on the edge

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time,” says a Chinese proverb.

A leader with compassion

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin conveys a powerful message in a Rosh Hashanah interview.

Israel turns the screws on Iran

Israel’s military activity against the Iranian presence in Syria is ongoing and much of it remains unreported.

Capital challenge

Nir Barkat’s departure has sparked a mayoral race rich with candidates, rivalries and schisms that reflect Jerusalem’s social disjointedness, and the hegemonic Right’s internal rifts.

Are we guilty? Are we traitors?

Collective guilt and the roots of Israeli solidarity.

Jewish, democratic – and Israeli

The Nation-State Law crisis proves that alongside the nurturing of the state’s Jewish identity it is no less essential to nurture the “togetherness” of a broad Israeli collective.

Rosh Hashanah The beginning of the Days of Awe

Long before Heschel, Jewish tradition suggested that humankind could take lessons in praising the Creator from the animals, vegetables and minerals.

14 Days: Lithuania Trip

Israel’s Defense Ministry has signed a deal worth hundreds of millions of shekels with Israel Military Industries to develop advanced rockets for the IDF.

Free Mengistu!

“For our brothers and sisters – including Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who are in captivity."

Maimonides and his perplexing Guide of the Perplexed

His magnum opus, the Guide of the Perplexed, remains the most influential attempt to reconcile Judaism’s sacred texts with scientific truths.

Seymour Hersh’s ‘Reporter’ is an absolute delight

“Reporter” is less an autobiography that an account of how Hersh got his big stories. And how he got his big stories boils down to dogged determination to get to the truth.

The principle of chaos and its war against cyber threats

Cyber systems are based on biological models; for billions of years of life, nature has established effective and advanced defense systems, and it’s natural to investigate and imitate them.

Don’t count on your pension!

The key to solving the pension crisis is to understand that if Israel waits a decade to fix the problem when a million or more pensioners become paupers, it will be too late.

It’s raining rockets. Again.

What has struck me most is the resilience of the people, even when everyone in the country knows that hundreds of rockets are heading across the border.

When Hertzel met Ruvi

Israeli president hosts Telfed delegation

PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: Dr. Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar

ID: Today she teaches college students at the Sapir Academic College near Sderot

The girl from Prague

"You were the girl from Prague who got out of Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. We all admired you for your tremendous courage.”

How it really was!

Parting is such sweet sorrow... The “bitter sorrow” of parents bidding farewell to children who are leaving for a young, struggling and distant Israel.

Caution: the sun will come out tomorrow

It’s important to realize that exposure to the sun, with or without sunscreen can lead to melanoma. Our best defense should be to dress appropriately against the sun.