Israel new year

Rosh Hashanah: How memory can be a double-edged sword - opinion

Memory is central to Rosh Hashanah but can be a double-edged sword.

|ByHOLLY CIN
A SUPERMARKET in Jerusalem does a brisk business last week as shoppers stock up for the New Year holiday. Rosh Hashanah is not just a time to look back; it’s a time to look forward, the writer notes.
A RALLY for the release of hostages held in Gaza takes place outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Even the wish that all the hostages will soon be brought back home is not really an issue on which we are fully united, the writer observes.

Rosh Hashanah: Wishing for peace, better education in the new year - opinion

Given the complicated and divided national reality we are currently experiencing, there are few options for appropriate holiday greetings.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Anti-missile system fires interception missiles as missiles fired from Iran, as seen in the West Bank on October 1, 2024

With a new year, comes a regional war for Israel - analysis

Israel is expected to attack Iran relatively soon and with a power that it has never done before following Tehran’s October 1 direct assault on the Jewish state.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Israelis visit Hostage Sqaure in Tel Aviv. December 7, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90

Facing 2024, together - editorial

Israel, a nation of innovation and resilience, faces formidable challenges in the year ahead, but has much to look forward to as well.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Grapevine: Right on the Mark

People from across the political spectrum are hailing the decision of Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint Mark Regev as the next ambassador to the Court of St James.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Mark Regev

Grapevine: Toasting the New Year

Employers all over Israel will mark the coming of the Jewish New Year with toasts and gifts for workers.

AUGUST 27, 2015ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Rami Levy

Happily Eva After: Ushering in 2015 the Eva way

JANUARY 22, 2015ByEVA
Painting by Pepe Fainberg

IN PICTURES: Revelers ring in New Year around the world

In Israel, MDA paramedics treated 137 people injured during celebrations.

JANUARY 1, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS
Confetti flies around the New Year's Eve Ball Drop, after midnight ,during New Year's eve celebrations in Times Square, New York January 1, 2015.

Israel Begins a New Year

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014ByMICHAEL ORDMAN
The Jerusalem Post

The top 10 stories of 5774

The past year saw former PM Olmert convicted, the murder of a Jerusalem teen that sparked unrest in Jerusalem and the snowstorm of the century.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014ByPEGGY CIDOR
Ehud Olmert