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Planning first Guinness record-breaking Shabbat dinner, and not bitter about being beaten - opinion

But the real difference wasn’t the finances, at least from what I can see from afar. It was in the overarching vibe.

Deborah Danan speaks about the White City Shabbat Guinness Record-breaking dinner before it began in Tel Aviv, June 13, 2014.
Dr. Tomer Persico

Tomer Persico: The evolution of individualism and collective identity in Judaism

Preparing for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the northern Israeli city of Safed, October 5, 2025

Days of Awe: Israel’s turn toward tradition - opinion

The Bukharan Market remains a vibrant and bustling place for locals to shop.

The Bukharan Quarter: A long way from the Silk Road


A call for compromise between religious and secular

Rabbi Menachem Bombach speaks at a demonstration calling for a broad consensus between the different groups within Israeli society that are currently in conflict.

 Rabbi Menachem Bombach

Have religious Israeli Jews given up on Israel's secular society? - opinion

At the heart of the crisis plaguing Israel lies the age-old divide between religious and secular Israel.

 DO WE still share a common narrative?

Tel Aviv residents protest plans for new yeshiva in city center

A small community synagogue in central Tel Aviv is planned to turn into a 250-student yeshiva, and the local resident are not happy about it.

 A YESHIVA in Bnei Brak: The Greeks, during the Hellenistic period, decreed to uproot the law of the Torah from the life of the Jewish people.

Crohn's disease: An unexpected bridge between Israelis - opinion

When we see ourselves on the same side, with a common challenge, that common challenge builds ties that matter and last.

 ‘No one is exempt from this disease, in which the body turns on its own digestive system’

Zionists didn’t wait for the Messiah - opinion

To those who believed in waiting for the Messiah, they said we can return to Israel without a Messiah.

 GOD’S PROVIDENCE is perceived in Israel’s success. Former prime minister David Ben-Gurion said, ‘In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles… Life is more than blind forces.’

Can you have morals without religion?

Even without divine instructions, humans are expected to act upon basic moral instincts and their innate sense of right and wrong.

 Human beings are weak by nature (Illustrative).

Israel: A Jewish democracy or religious state? - opinion

The Israeli government should strike a balance between the demands made by the ultra-Orthodox sectors and the needs of Israeli citizens in general.

 BNEI BRAK: The combination of ultra-Orthodox large families who are unemployed, lack a regular income and the basic education required for knowledge and occupation, has led to extensive poverty among this sector, says the writer.

Majority of young Israelis fear for Israel's democracy - survey

A majority of Israeli youth and university graduates, both Jewish and Arab, responded that they feared for the future of Israel’s democracy.

 Israelis protest against head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on October 29, 2022.

There's a missed chance to form new balance with haredim - opinion

On issues such as public transportation on Saturday the status quo will be preserved and prospects of introducing such transportation in secular regions, towns and cities will be thwarted.

 MK MOSHE Gafni (right) in deep discussion with fellow United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum last week.

In viral clip, French TV host asks Jewish guest why he wears a kippah in public

Though brief, the exchange illustrated the starkly different perspectives on religious expression in France, the United States and elsewhere in the western world.

A man wearing a yarmulke looks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.