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Protection rackets provide “protection” for profit. Much of that profit, typically, is plowed back to the organization to render it even more powerful.

Since the American people seem determined to decrease America’s military presence in the Middle East, the US should bolster its support for Israel’s campaign

It was a crime of passion – prayer. I had been praying at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall, wearing a tallit exactly as I had since my bat mitzvah.

“It’s high time for a turnabout in public policy that places the public interest at the center.”

There is no other way to say this: Vote for the Blue and White bloc.

At the Fifth International Holocaust Forum, King Felipe mentioned that “Spain has a rich and complex Jewish past” but did not explicitly mention the expulsion of the Jews of Spain.

No country should be interested in aiding and abetting the agenda of the hypocritical UN Human Rights Council

Crass politicians are stirring anti-religious passions for electoral gain

The coronavirus outbreak has brought out the best and worst in people.

UTJ Mk Moshe Gafni's support for haredi schools with more secular studies than required is nothing short of a revolution.

According to Gantz, it is Netanyahu’s fault that Israel has become a partisan issue in the US, and it is the mission of the “anybody-but-Bibi” faction to remedy the situation

“Observance of the Sabbath gradually was abandoned in the larger cities and increasingly in the small towns as well

Note of Harrison’s achievement suggested that stereotypes die hard. Harrison, The New York Times wrote, was “‘the only producer anywhere, with dimples and a 24-inch waistline.’”

The strange deaths of performers onstage

Rabbi Avi Weiss takes the reader on his evolving journey

The plight of the 150,000 Batyas

I found lots of discussion online about jinxed garments – especially unlucky pants.

Readers of the JPost have their say

The speed of Chinese viral contamination sends us a risk signal for trade. We discover that rapid propagation does not just work for incoming and outgoing goods and services.

This disease has already destroyed many lives. And in addition to physically killing people, we know that it is wrecking havoc in many other ways.

Despite the promise of a “positive campaign” by Likud officials, once again, the main campaign slogan of the Likud is “Without the Arab Joint List, Gantz can’t form a government.”

Bernie Sanders's PR people have been busily spinning his image and Jewish ancestry. So let’s look at his record, associates and endorsements.

This particular US election dwarfs everything else on the news agenda. Everything, even Israel’s election, the third election in a year.

Over the past decades, Zionist parties abandoned their commitment to full equality, and have not even tried to include representatives of the Arab citizens on high places on their lists.

If we accept the figures offered by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the annexation of Judea and Samaria would result in as few as 120,000 and as many as 300,000 new Palestinian Arab voters.

Since the American and French revolutions, assimilation has replaced acculturation in the Jewish Diaspora.

The three countries see the Arab countries as weak and exploitable, and two of them, seek to reassert their former spheres of control there.

Israel needs the best leader possible at this critical moment, and no one has more experience than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Imagine some truly dangerous people who should be kept away from key institutions.

Incitement and attacks against Palestinians who want to reach out are harming the few courageous voices who would like to open minds about a future that can be different.

The fact that the ties between Palestinian civil society groups and terrorist organizations have significantly deepened over the years should alarm anyone.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Ambassador David Friedman gave America’s blessing to annexation within a day of the plan’s release. Ten days later, he did a full about-face.

The security-based essence of the plan has been one of the fundamentals of Israel’s security doctrine since repelling aggression in the Six Day War.

Under the slogan #DontStandBy, the president on Sunday launched a campaign against cyberbullying.

As antisemitism has spiked around the world, including in the United States, Holocaust memory has become more important than ever.

We entered the gas chambers in silence... there was no talking allowed.

Many historians agree that antisemitism is reaching levels globally not seen since the Holocaust.

Arguably, Yemen is now at its calmest since the civil war began.

Mr. Liberman, the polls indicate that you are in a strong position to decide the future of our children and grandchildren in the election on March 2.

Last Tuesday, Partner Communications held its annual conference, titled ‘Partners in Excellence.’

It is a great problem for Israel that the majority of American Jews will probably vote for the Democratic nominee, whoever that is.

One of the most burning issues that must be addressed concerns transition governments.

The lack of a core curriculum in the haredi sector for boys is one of the biggest restraints on the integration of men from the community into the workforce, and on their earning capacity.

The Joint List is not actually absent from their influence over the identity of the next prime minister, as attested to by the three previous election campaigns.

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

My father was born in Poland. In 1941, after he lost one brother to the Nazis, the Soviets took control of his hometown and he and his family were deported to Siberia, where they survived the war.

There are numerous lamentations about the negative implications for Palestinians and the manifest injustice being paid to them.

When the Palestinians reached the conclusion that rejection does not pay, they recognized Israel’s statehood and signed the Oslo Accords.

“The Persians did invent chess, but I met quite a few Jews who learned how to deliver checkmate,” replied Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva, noting that the campaign-between-the-wars is far from over.

Celebrations this week mark the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

The approval process for Momentum needs to be above the fray of politics and electioneering.

I, like most Christian Zionists, was both excited and apprehensive at the thought of a peace plan coming from this administration.

Their experiences and life lessons learned and lived seem to imbue many with a quality of moral authority that leads all of us to sit upright and listen.

“Usury” was the grounds for deportation of the Jews of Antwerp by the Duke of Brabant in 1261, who called for them to be expelled or destroyed.

"There is no sovereignty? It is mostly the fault of the right-wing governments."

The Jordan Valley – strategic depth essential for Israel's existence

"Sovereignty over the Jordan Valley is merely a matter of time, and almost all indications point in that direction."

In her proposed legislation, MK Haskel detailed the process of sovereignty in the Jordan Valley and northern Samaria in a number of key phases

Our plan "obviates the need for Israel to uproot communities, and it does so while avoiding any act that anyone could consider to be apartheid."

The venture will also allow retailers working with ChargeAfter access to Visa’s sellers, acquirers and issuing banks in order to garner a range of point of sale financing and credit options.

Israel is changing the world for the better.

When Elaine landed in Hawaii for a much-needed vacation, she was shocked to discover that the “accessible” hotel room she’d booked wasn’t built wide enough to let her wheelchair fit in the door.

Even if the users in the market countries don’t pay, they are merely users with cookies in their computers for analytical and advertising purposes.

Abbas believed that the first stage of liberation and statehood would begin with the Israeli withdrawal.

For the first time since Oslo, there is political consensus in Israel on how to relate to the Palestinian conflict.

Countries with the worst human-rights records, such as Cuba and Venezuela, pushed the list due to their anti-Israel views, not because of an attachment to international law.

Traditionally, Jewish thinkers were divided into two categories: philosophers and mystics.

Know Comment: Abbas also swore “never” to recognize Israel as the national state of the Jewish people (and mocked Russian and Ethiopian immigrants to Israel as non-Jews).

Netanyahu never really planned to implement Trump’s peace plan.

A successful aliyah requires coming prepared mentally. Israeli culture and norms are different than those in the US, for good and for bad.

Like Iran, Qatar funds terrorism, says ex-chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee.

As a Jew, the upsurge of anti-Chinese bigotry triggered by the coronavirus brings back painful memories of medieval Europeans blaming Jews for the spread of the Black Death.

Everyone can help to fight the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Many former students from Shadmot Neria have returned to the moshav or surrounding region and have helped establish three more communities.

Editor's Note: In the Arab sector there is an expectation that people who did not vote in the past will vote on March 2.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert praised the very Palestinian leader who had snubbed his own generous-to-the-point-of-suicidal offer.

Unlike in his previous works, however, the places Gladwell goes in his Talking to Strangers are foreboding and dark

How do you help children become respectful and responsible adults, while you maintain your sanity and actually “enjoy” raising children? I thought I’d share the Ten Commandments of raising children.

There was a very effective local campaign to ensure a high level of awareness in Israel about Na’ama’s plight. However, all the hype and happy ending stuff may be backfiring.

Bucket lists are more than a pleasant distraction; they have real psychological value. Fulfilling a bucket list “is an attempt to make life memorable," writes Prof. Christopher Peterson.

The hotel is called Club J and J stands for juvie: Jew

I'm told that if one would dig in a straight line from Hawaii directly through the Earth, he would come up in Jerusalem!

Like Iran, Qatar funds terrorism, says ex-chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee

In this week in 1979, monarchical rule was abruptly squashed as fundamentalist Shi’ite clerics seized power under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

This is an American problem that goes far beyond US-Israel relations. Increasingly, our age of fanatic partisanship considers bipartisanship delusional or distracting.

Here are a few facts about this so-called “open and democratic” city of Jerusalem.

For years, living kidney donors were common among relatives and friends, but what Matnat Chaim in Israel and other organizations are encouraging is the donation of a live kidney to strangers.

Many Israelis today feel they are being punished for who they are, rather than what they thought or did – damned if they want peace, damned if they don’t.

We are not naïve. One newspaper issue, whose readership is limited, will not change the world.

Revenge has been called a dish best served cold, but US President Donald Trump prefers it red-hot and steaming.

How these three traditions, shaped through their mutual interactions, continue to mold us today.