Opinion

COVID-19 didn’t make us anxious. We did, and we masked our troubles with polarizing politics

Left and Right, religious and secular, we have become too pedantic toward Diaspora Jewry. We have not paid sufficient attention to almost half of our people who do not live in the Jewish state.

This recent KKL-JNF proposal will encourage Jewish settlement in the region and ultimately serve to strengthen Jewish ties to Israel.

Implementing justice feels so right when a wrong is being corrected and or is being punished.

Due to their physical and family condition, they cannot live or even visit their own homes. Hence, ALYN has become their only home.

Overnight on Monday and throughout Tuesday, Hamas continued its onslaught, firing hundreds of rockets on the South targeting Ashkelon and Ashdod.

The Palestinians have an interest in pushing a narrative that everything happening right now is because of Jerusalem, but these are simply today’s convenient excuses.

The well-known sentence coined by the late former prime minister Levi Eshkol, “I promised, but I did not promise to keep,” applies to all politicians from all over the political spectrum.

Targeting right-wing authoritarianism is easy. Fighting the Woke Left’s self-righteous assault on intellectual life is harder.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

While freedom of worship has been given to all religions in the city, there is excessive strictness imposed upon Jews seeking to visit the Temple Mount.

The memorial this year comes six years after mass protests by Jews of Ethiopian origin against racism in Israeli society.

Historically, Iranian presidents have had very little impact on either domestic or foreign policy. He cannot make change. In effect, the president has limited power with an impressive title.

As Palestinian leaders and Iran incite mobs to wreak havoc at holy sites for Jerusalem Day, they are once again fulfilling a rich, lengthy tradition of failure that only harms their interests.

The absence of dialogue with the Palestinian leaderships deprives the UAE of significant leverage in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Experts say that the Taliban, despite losses estimated in the tens of thousands, is stronger now than at any point since 2001. With up to 85,000 full-time fighters, it controls 20% of the country.

It is thought that in Italy, the vaccine rollout is among the worst.

The gov’t should promote the transition of the IDF C4I and Intelligence Campus to the Negev and turn Beersheba into the cyber capital of Israel.

People who have been married more than a quarter-century who decide, after the kids are grown and out of the house, decide they’ve had enough. That’s become the fastest-growing segment of divorce.

How to cope with the financial crisis and even emerge from it stronger.

All eyes will be focused on the capital on Monday when Jews, mainly from the Right and national-religious sector, plan to hold the traditional Flag Parade, which usually proceeds into the Old City.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

evidence confirms continued US-Israeli coordination and cooperation to address Iranian threats in a variety of areas. The most recent move is the two countries’ agreement to form a joint task force.

Today, the demonization and bad-mouthing of the leftists/liberals/socialists is undoubtedly much more widespread than several decades ago.

The American withdrawal from the region, promised by US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, now has a September target date in Afghanistan.

Zero people have had anything happen to them despite 45 people losing their lives in the greatest civilian tragedy in Israel’s 73-year history. Zero.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Incidentally, strengthening the Judeo-Christian alliance begins in school.

Bashing nationalism is very desirable in academic circles these days, and bashing Jewish nationalism and the Zionist movement is especially popular.

Last weekend, in fact, provided Biden with an additional reason to discuss hate in America.

The very essence of apartheid was the physical separation of people based on a legislated racial hierarchy.

As Raúl Castro exits the scene, ending 62 years of Castro tyranny, many questions abound. One thing, however, is perfectly clear: Decades of US sanctions have failed. And miserably.

Highlighting the need to enforce hygiene standards in hospitals and implementing innovative technologies that can create a significant change.

HRW’s report is part of a concerted NGO campaign, as documented by NGO Monitor, to use the term “apartheid” in order to lobby the International Criminal Court to open an investigation against Israel.

Morocco has played a role in the peace process between Israel and its neighbors from time to time throughout its history due to its relatively neutral foreign policy.

The report comes as Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza erect more barriers to peace with Israel, and as they themselves degrade the human rights of the Palestinian people.

There is no doubt that if this government comes together, it will be something never seen before in Israel.

The Arabs understand the pain of the ultra-Orthodox. They experience the same contempt from the police and the minister of public security.

Our students never blamed the police or the hassidim. They showed concern for everyone.

When the investigation process is completed, those responsible will be identified. No one will be held criminally liable.

Bennett and Lapid need to show the public that the premiership is not a goal in and of itself, but a means through which to promote the country.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. –Warren Buffett

Real estate transactions in Israel are generally subject to the following: land appreciation tax, levied on the seller, and purchase tax levied on the purchaser.

The Mount Meron disaster as a lesson in absent governance

Judaism was never static in its self-understanding of the nature of God or God’s relationship to the Jewish people.

The Meron misfortune reflects a larger problem that Israel has with haredi politics, in which Arye Deri is a key culprit.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

There was something biblical about both the scope and nature of the disaster that took the lives of 45 people in the early hours of Friday morning, April 30.

How many more rockets, riots, elections and stampedes can someone endure?

All along, and as recently as this week, PA officialdom under his rule has been consistent in its support for the cold-blooded murder of innocent Israelis.

No progress ever stems from lies, violence and cowardice. What elevates and what destroys is the question that every generation has faced, and right now we are allowing the destroyers free rein.

Jewish norms forbid tossing sacred writings into the trash. A worn Torah scroll should be buried with a sainted person

Rivlin has often spoken about Israel’s four tribes. In reality Israel has far more than that. If, however, we stay focused on what divides us we will never be able to unite.

We must return to the framework of two major political parties that will be the home of political struggles, allowing the government to govern.

Haredim cannot be expected to respect secular culture. Secular people, meanwhile, cannot be expected to respect the haredi way.

As fires rage around the world – COVID, race wars, antisemitism – we are again privileged to be precisely here, fighting our own battles instead of being caught in the crossfire of others’.

There are serious reasons behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most Israelis are blind to the realities of occupation.

No country other than Iran has ever voluntarily agreed to put such extraordinary restrictions on its nuclear activities, and understood that its lack of compliance would revive economic sanctions.

I hope that today’s troops are far better trained and infinitely better led than in my day.

Rabbi Lau: ‘The message is not to remain indifferent; to resolutely fight antisemitism. God saved us from them, but we should not hope for a miracle again’

The lack of clarity over the status of the Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the lack of a vision making Jerusalem a truly undivided city remains elusive.

When we go out to the polls again, be it in 2021 or 2025, the Center-Left will still need to face the Arab public and convince them to vote and to give them their support.

Perhaps this horrific moment can become that kind of turning point for haredi integration into Israeli society. But it will only happen with leadership.

No one narrative is fully correct, and the truth (whatever it may be) will often upset the partisans among us. So let’s try to set the record straight (or further complicate it) on a few issues.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

The model of coexistence in the city of Jerusalem can be the model for coexistence between Arabs and Jews living together throughout the country.

The government in recent weeks yielded its authority both at the Damascus Gate and in Meron, concerning decisions it deemed necessary to preserve public order at both sites.

As the international community negotiates with Iran over its reentry into the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), it’s important to take into account the new China-Iran strategic relationship.

Many are calling for a full government investigation into what exactly caused the incident. Others are answering the question by looking inward in spiritual reflection.

There is no reason and no justification for the victims’ deaths. There is no good that came from their deaths. No lesson for the collective Jewish people.

I haven’t been able to bring myself to read a single article about what happened, though I see the headlines and I hear people talk about it.

By the end of the war, more than 90% of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were gone, and many traces of their presence had been erased.

It is clear that J Street and its fellow travelers like Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow view Israel through the prism of the American Jewish experience.

Twelve years ago, the Montefiore Hotel became the first boutique hotel in the city that doesn’t sleep. The past year saw it struggling to survive but now the hotel and its iconic restaurant are back.

The Human Rights Watch report accusing Israel of apartheid could have a negative impact on the Jewish state's international legacy.

It is hard to fathom how in a country that boasts about its technological advancements, economic prosperity and military prowess, 23% of its population lives under poverty line

Yesterday was declared a day of mourning for the 45 victims but lowering flags and lighting candles are not enough. This was the country’s worst-ever civilian disaster.

The legal complexities of who controls what land and which buildings at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount Meron have for years stymied efforts to develop the site.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Post-Saddam Iraq has suffered from poor governance. The new, democratic Iraq is rife with bribery, kickbacks, and embezzlement, a routine part of its corrupt politics.

The event is a national tragedy, and should be treated as such, irrespective of whom the victims are, and how loyal or disloyal they were to the state.

Not only does it pave the way for Jews of all streams to be eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, it also sends a message that the Orthodox monopoly on Israel is not sustainable.

As the number and severity of Palestinian and Iranian attacks against Israel increase, US President Joe Biden moves quickly to restore former president Barack Obama's Iran nuclear deal.

An office dedicated to the Jews of the world sends a message to those Jews that Israel cares about them and that they have an address to come to discuss issues that concern them.

The Biden administration might be prepared to sacrifice a strong strategic alliance with Israel if it were to oppose the US return to the Iran deal.

France is home to the world’s third-largest Jewish population, at around 500,000. But with rising antisemitism across the country, it is no surprise that French Jews are packing up and leaving.

Though this handful of demonstrators is not representative of ultra-Orthodox society as a whole, it reflects a growing trend among young ultra-Orthodox men who find an outlet in right-wing protests.

We give our three children enormous love and energy and guidance, and at the same time, we also discuss the fourth child that we nurture and guide alongside them: the Jewish community.

Whereas acts of sadness, grief, and mourning tend to be more specific and delineated, Judaism really has no concrete guidelines on how to be happy – it depends on the nature of each individual.

The Israeli government and public are unaware of the change in US attitudes toward Israel, especially in the American Jewish community. The lack of attention in Israel towards J Street proves this.

As Israel started opening up, we headed up North to see what we could find. With such beautiful landscapes, why bother going abroad?!

It is sad to say, but Netanyahu today is a danger to the State of Israel. Even his longtime supporters must recognize that this country is more important than this prime minister.

Kerry might very well be telling the truth. But he would do well to reflect on why accusations surrounding his attempts to undermine Israel, not to mention the US, are completely plausible.