Opinion

Washington Watch: Reject Jewish caucus plan

A call by the American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) for a “first ever Congressional Jewish Caucus” is wrong on history, necessity and intention.

Open letter from a lone soldier

At the end of the day, the lone soldier wants to be able to say when it comes to Israel, “I matter, I made a difference.”

A tale of three journalists

The media – even a state-sponsored public broadcasting authority – can make value judgments and decide when an employee has crossed a line.

I studied at NYU Tel Aviv

Here’s why the university’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis got it wrong.

Let’s start talking

American Jews and the Democratic presidential contenders need a dialogue.

From Russia – with love

We brought with us then items that could assist the refuseniks in their struggle – religious objects, books on Judaism, Hebrew primers, small amounts of money and food, which was scarce in Russia.

Letting go

Cancer or not, I’m still me with the same brain chemistry.

Opening your home to the conflict

Have you ever held an imaginary conversation with American college students who believe Israel is an apartheid state dominated by big bad settlers and soldiers who torture children?

Trump has ‘trumped’ the Islamic Mafia

In recent weeks, Jared Kushner, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, announced that the peace plan would begin unveiling in June, after Ramadan.

The Patriots and Revolution: A tale of two teams with no Israeli players

While it is true that no Israeli football player has the requisite talent to play in the NFL with the Patriots, the same case cannot be made when it comes to Israeli soccer players and the Revolution

May 22, 2019: BDS/BDSM and beyond

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

Iran is too smart to go to war

The subsequent difficulties of staying in Iraq to rebuild the Iraqi state have overshadowed one of the greatest military successes in the history of warfare.

GRAPEVINE: A break-fast dilemma

Movers and shakers: how Israeli people shape the places of this country.

An Iranian mud dilemma

Inaction, on the other hand, will place the public focus on the beleaguered economy and foreign military adventures, two issues that have already brought Iranians to the streets.

Center Field: Will Revisionist, religious Zionists protect Israel’s soul?

Sadly, the right-wing Zionisms that might protect Israel’s spirit – Revisionist Zionism and religious Zionism – are mostly muzzled.

Protecting lone soldiers

A lone soldier is defined as a soldier serving in the IDF without parents in Israel. Some 7,000 lone soldiers are currently serving. Roughly half are new immigrants.

Teach your child to swim

Someone should really launch a campaign under the heading of “Save a Child’s Life by Teaching Him/Her to Swim.”

No peace, no border, no solution

This was the first day of the “ceasefire” after the unprovoked rocket fire and attacks by Islamic Jihad and Hamas from Gaza that had killed and injured innocent civilians over the span of a few days.

Safety first

We’re not even at the halfway point of 2019, and already there have been 20 people killed and 68 injured in building site accidents in Israel this year.

We all speak English, so what’s the problem?

Israeli companies made 61 exits for a total of $4.9 billion in 2018. These are staggering numbers, evidencing the success in fields such as life sciences, vehicle security and various hi-tech fields.

Wanted: A minister of transparency

It is at the very foundations of sound management and ensures the public’s faith in the government. When a government is transparent and wins public trust, it acts more effectively and more efficiently.

Time for a paradigm shift: Neither pro-Israel nor pro-Palestine

Responding to a situation unraveling out of control, he pleaded for people to pause and reflect – in short, for cooler heads to prevail. “It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down.”

First they came for the rabbis

Why the Poway Passover shooter targeted a synagogue

Rashida Tlaib and the Trojan horse of antisemitic tropes

While we all should be condemning antisemitic stereotypes, we need to not lose focus on what’s the main cause of systematic left-wing antisemitism.

Poland and the Jews: Where we cannot compromise

No people has ever been more brutally massacred at any other time in history than the Jews under the Germans.