Jewish state

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza

The California State Senator explained that he had been reluctant to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide because of the term's creation in response to the Holocaust.

San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014
TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Miri Regev once stated: 'What is a public broadcaster worht if we cannot control it?'

Railway to nowhere: How Miri Regev, Likud politics stalled Israel’s role in IMEC corridor - opinion

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Moriah War Memorial College in Sydney, Australia on February 23, 2017.

Israel-Diaspora relations are fracturing - both sides must invest in repair - opinion

The Zionist Congress meeting in April 2023 in Jerusalem.

The World Zionist Congress must reflect reality across the Jewish Diaspora - opinion


An open letter to Naftali Bennett: Heal our country

Is this what we want for the country of the Jews? Where we just hate each other so much that we can’t even countenance living in the same space?

NAFTALI BENNETT, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Book Review: Conflicting visions for the State of Israel

As we celebrate Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, we are mindful that the State of Israel in 1948 was a dream fulfilled for Jews all over the world.

Rabbi Marc Rosenstein

How can this circus end while respecting the voters' verdict?

Middle Israel: This can’t go on. If this country is dragged to an election every half year, the Jewish state might decompose.

Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid confer at a party meeting

IDF urged to allow chametz on army bases during Passover

The letter to the Chief of Staff asks to ensure the supply of kosher food for Passover does not justify a ban on the holding of chametz by secular or non-Jews.

IDF SOLDIERS from the 669 Unit during a training exercise last year.

A Wall of Honor, Hope, and Heritage

Jewish National Fund-USA donor Bob Chertkof joins the Wall of Honor

JNF-USA’s Ammunition Hill Wall of Honor acknowledges past and present individuals who served their country’s armed services.

Dissension in the home; dissension in the homeland

Let there be no doubt that one day a majority of Palestinian Arabs will condemn the self-indulgent and corrupt Palestinian leadership for the crimes they are committing against their own people.

The author’s Zayde, Efraim Fishel Onrot, with son, Jacob, and grandson, Lee Atkins

The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not its failure

Today, the old romanticized image of Israel, shaped more by Exodus the film than by Exodus, the biblical book, no longer gets much of a hearing.

ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister David Ben-Gurion (center) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv May 14, 1948.

What does ‘a Jewish state’ mean?

Should there be a separation between shul and state?

‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’

Book review: Ex-Irish minister says he was framed

Book blames antisemitism for derailing Alan Shatter’s career

PLO leader Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Irish foreign minister Dick Spring in 1996

Jewish states' citizens' - 'Thorny situations' under review

Dee Corum’s take on the sometimes thorny situations we face here in the Jewish state.

‘WHETHER ON social media or in real life, the stakes seem high in convincing the world that our lives are great.’