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Voices from the Arab Press: China’s Iran dilemma, Israel elections, Hezbollah US talks

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses of the Arab media around the world.

THEN-IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L), Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang, and Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud meet in Beijing, April 2023.
BAYREUTH FESTIVAL HALL in Germany, built specifically for the performance of Wagner’s stage works.

To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters

LEFT: AARON KRAUS, ‘Standing Prayer (Amidah).’ RIGHT: MIRIAM  JASKIEROWICZ ARMAN, ‘Begetting Life.’

‘Jerusalem of Gold’ exhibit brings five Israeli artists to the capital’s theater

YOU CAN make a toast for the New Year with a good sparkling wine, like Yarden Brut Rose.

Wine talk: Eat well, drink well


A Shabbat with a view: Falling for Hotel Beit Shmuel, one balcony at a time - review

Good food, better panoramas, and one contested piece of cake.

That balcony: We drink it in.

Audrey Lynn Leinoff: From pinned down to pinpointed

Behind every polished article is an editor fighting for accuracy - and Audrey Lynn Leinoff knows that battle well.

In Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, the interviewee imagines hearing four emboldened Musketeers cry out: ‘All for one, and one for all!’

'Together On Our Own': A relationship conundrum with AI - review

The author, Dr. Eliana Megerman, an emergency room physician, writes with graceful ease and guides us into the inner depths of a medical world which we usually see only from the surface.

Eyes In The Heat, 1946, Jackson Pollock, Guggenheim Museum, Venice "It is the rare life indeed where the paint stays in the borders and isn't splattered in every direction."

'Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions': Jerusalem and its names - review

The book offers a perspective on how language itself shapes the identity, and holiness of Jerusalem.

A SECTION of what is believed to be the world’s ‘Foundation Stone,’ currently under the Golden Dome.

In the wake of October 7, doing good matters more than ever - opinion

Good builds on and echoes all we have learned and experienced in life to guide our thoughts and actions according to inherent signposts.

Stickers of persons killed on Oct. 7 and in the ongoing war blanket Tel Aviv’s Hashalom rail station, 2025.

Voices from the Arab press: Victory from which there is no escape

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Split screen of two videos of blasts, one shot in thermal imaging, that show the IDF destroying underground infrastructure used by Hezbollah, in Majdal Zoun, southern Lebanon. Videos released June 28.

Nourishing the North: JNF-USA's culinary school opens with a mission beyond food

The Jewish National Fund-USA's GCI isn’t just where one learns to cook; one also learns about food, nutrition, agriculture, taste, aesthetics, and more.  

KIDS FROM GONEN cooking together with Chef Ran.

Tom Wesselmann's American pop art takes center stage at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The first major Israeli exhibition of Tom Wesselmann explores how iconic pop art is viewed through today’s social and political lens.

‘Still Life #33,’ 1963, paint and printed reproductions  on canvas.

Theodor Herzl and American Jews: The untold story of a Zionist bond that changed history

From early skeptics to aliyah pioneers, American Jews have carried forward Theodor Herzl’s dream for more than a century.

Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), visionary.

Why American Jews don't have to choose between the US and Israel - opinion

After 50 years in Israel, one immigrant explores the enduring ties between her American roots and her Israeli home.

Israeli and American flags on the same pole.