Jewish Extremism

Israeli society must reclaim the Torah’s moral core - opinion

Violence, extremism, and division are distorting Torah values in parts of Israeli society and religious life.

MAY 28, 2026|BySHUKI FRIEDMAN

An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, October 29, 2025.

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir leads Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset, on Monday.

Do Ben-Gvir’s flotilla follies make him Israel’s anti-Zionist of the year? - opinion

Ben-Gvir's behavior violated Zionism’s foundational ideals while flouting Jewish values.

MAY 26, 2026|ByGIL TROY

‘We were taught to love each other, not to hate. Christians are a peaceful community,’ says Naji Mansour, owner of Mansour Money Change in the Old City.

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'I refuse to hide my cross': Jerusalem's Christians describe a climate of fear

Clergy, residents, and business owners say assaults against Christians in Jerusalem are becoming more frequent – and more tolerated

MAY 21, 2026|ByDANA BEN-SHIMON

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and committee head MK Zvika Fogel attend a National Security committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament on March 24, 2026.

Israel must confront Jewish extremism while rejecting Europe’s double standards - editorial

The question is whether Jewish power there will be governed by law, restraint, responsibility, and reverence for human life, or hijacked by an extremist theology dressed up as patriotism.

MAY 14, 2026|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

How widespread is the terrorist element among religious Jewish youth?

Leaders of the religious Zionist world say the price tag/hilltop youth phenomenon is a rebellion against their theology.

MARCH 4, 2016ByANDREW FRIEDMAN

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Defense Ministry extends administrative of ultra-nationalist Meir Ettinger

Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim, two Jewish settler activists currently in administrative detention have been hunger striking recently to protest their treatment.

FEBRUARY 1, 2016ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Does Jewish law permit torture to elicit criminal confessions?

THE PROSPECTS of the Jewish state employing torture undoubtedly jolt any student of Jewish history who lacks knowledge of the tactics used by gentiles throughout two millennia of exile.

JANUARY 27, 2016ByRABBI SHLOMO BRODY

Comment: Wife of late Meir Kahane addresses hunger-striking grandson's administrative detention

"An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights," Libby Kahane argues.

JANUARY 24, 2016ByLIBBY KAHANE

A master of reinforcing fear and loathing

From the outset, supporters of the extremists among the settlers insisted that Arabs must have been responsible, that Jews would never do such a thing.

JANUARY 13, 2016ByMARK LAVIE

RASHID DAWABSHA stands outside his son Mamoun’s torched home in the Arab village Duma on Sunday

Christian monastery near Beit Shemesh desecrated

Beit Jamal has been targeted in "Price tag" attacks in the past.

JANUARY 11, 2016ByJEREMY SHARON

THESE CRUCIFORM TOMBSTONES were found knocked over at the Beit Jamal monastery, the result of one of several attacks against Christian sites in the Beit Shemesh area over the years.

Israeli West Bank youth sentenced to jail for posing 'national security' risk

The Justice Ministry said that crimes were "ideological" in nature and added that the jail sentences were necessary in order to deter future incidences.

JANUARY 7, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF