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Lockdown: Save your time for love

A song born of lockdown, silence, and ancient wisdom.

Lockdown
 Shira Sedek Ben-Zekhariah arrives at Ben-Gurion Airport, June 26, 2025.

Aliyah: A wedding postponed, a dream fulfilled

Chief rabbis of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Rabbi Arye Stern

Rabbis after Google: Jewish leadership must be reimagined - opinion

Iraqi Jews pray at the tomb of Ezekiel in Al-Kifl in southeastern Iraq on the Euphrates River, between Najaf and Al Hillah, in 1932.

When brothers reunite: Ezekiel’s prophecy and Israel’s deepest divide


Letters to the Editor, June 23, 2024: Look in the mirror

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Playing God: Judaism and the idea of randomness

God isn’t arbitrary and doesn’t abandon His world to chance.

 WE STILL labor in a world in which cause and effect are veiled.

Searching for truth: Rabbi Akiva and Turnus Rufus in dialogue

We are sent on our individual journeys from the moment we are born, seeking simultaneous distance and closeness with family, community, and God as we make the choices that shape who we are.

 OFTEN, TURNUS Rufus asked clever questions. Pictured: Monumental question mark in Milton Keynes, UK, 1975.

Introducing the Diamond-Studded Book of Psalms!

The beloved headscarf brand offers a beautiful and modest clothing collection, a new facial care series from an international brand, and new kitchen appliances from the veteran cookware manufacturer.


24 biblical, historical events that happened in the Hebrew month of Nissan

Of the 12 stones on the High Priest's ephod (breastplate), the stone for Nissan is known as “nophech” and is identified with a turquoise or blue emerald. 

 During his 1799 siege of Acre, Napoleon promised the Jews the ‘reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem.’

Miracles do happen: A look at the biblical splitting of the Red Sea

The splitting of the Red Sea is central to Jewish identity, but as the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks asked, "In what sense was it a miracle?"

 PHARAOH’S ARMY engulfed by the Red Sea, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1900. ‘The wind dropped, the waters flooded back, and the entire Egyptian force was drowned.’

Shabbat Passover: Song of love, longing, and illumination

On this Sabbath, it is customary in many communities to read Shir Hashirim, the “Song of Songs” – the biblical love song composed by King Solomon.

 ONE ACCEPTING the yoke of heaven enters into a relationship of love and friendship with God.

Passover 2024: Finding God's presence as the Jewish state fights to survive

Jewish history is cyclical: What happened before will happen again. But it also changes and advances.

 ISRAELI AMBASSADOR to the UN Gilad Erdan shows a video of Iranian drones and missiles heading toward Israel, at a UN Security Council meeting in New York City, April 14.

Four Passover conversations with God

We all possess characteristics of each child, and during Passover we conduct each of these four conversations in parallel.

 THESE RAW feelings of fear and anguish provided moments of deep, raw conversation.

Reestablishing Israeli military invincibility and common destiny - opinion

Only an identity that is the synthesis of all its parts will keep Israel safe and ready to fulfill its true destiny of being a light unto the nations.

 IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi walks with senior officers near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on March 20.