Over the last few years, Seth Frantzman and Jonathan Spyer have reported on the ground from Syria and Iraq, as … More
Tag: israel
Moving mountains
It’s a sunny day and I’m cruising down the nursery slope at Israel’s Mount Hermon ski resort. By noon, hundreds … More
Ahmadinejad’s bizarre bid for political relevance
In early April, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most powerful branch of the Iranian military, … More
Double vision
As the US breaks with the status quo by moving its embassy from Tel Aviv – and a spate of … More
Over 3,500 North Americans immigrate to Israel in 2018
A total of 3,546 new immigrants came to Israel from the US and Canada in 2018, according to a year-end … More
Jerusalem? Tel Aviv? What is Israel’s best city?
Jerusalem is one of the five most least livable cities in Israel, according to a new report released by the … More
A familial tragedy
Between 1989 and 2000, from the fall of the Berlin Wall until the rise of Vladimir Putin, nearly a million … More
Russian Chief Rabbi: Israel shouldn’t rely on anyone
SIGHET, ROMANIA – Berel Lazar, one of Russia’s chief rabbis and a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told an … More
Hunt for the truth
Is it possible to change your entire life? The Legacy, British journalist and Jerusalem Post columnist Melanie Phillips’s latest novel, … More
Echoes of the revolution
Widespread demonstrations protesting the deteriorating economic situation continued throughout Iran on Tuesday. Pictures and video posted to social media and … More
Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour convicted
Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour was found guilty of incitement to violence and supporting a terror organization, for poems and comments … More
Coming out, getting in
Payam Feili is a gay Iranian poet. Nadav Schwartz is an Orthodox Israeli Jew. But in ways both astoundingly similar … More
Oath of Blood
Imagine getting the worst news possible, learning it isn’t true, and then realizing it is after all — in the … More
From the Bible to Sir Isaac Newton: How Hebrew Survived and Thrived
Sir Isaac Newton was fascinated by the Hebrew language. The pioneering English physicist, famous today as one of the founders … More
What Israelis didn’t see … and Al-e Ahmad did
The most arresting and surprising part of Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Israel travelogue The Israeli Republic is his comparison … More
No man on the moon
A scrappy Israeli team is trying to win millions for sending an unmanned mission to the moon. During the Holocaust, … More
Occupation 101
In the summer of 2012, the people of Nabi Saleh finally made it to the spring. Every Friday since 2009, … More
What’s your beef
Sitting in his spacious office in the town of Kfar Kanna, near Nazareth in the Galilee, Ahmad Effendi Meat Co. … More
What fractured Jerusalem needs now
In the summer of 2014 Jerusalem broke apart, again. In those few bloody months, which began in April with the … More
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: is one homeland the solution?
As support for a two-state solution to their conflict declines among Israelis and Palestinians, a different approach to finding a … More
In praise of pastrami
Food writer Janna Gur’s “Book of New Israeli Food” is one of several recent cookbooks celebrating the rich diversity of … More
The war on women in Israel
Sexist laws and institutions threaten women in Israel, but Arab women are beset from all sides
The most dangerous man in Iran
This past March Tehran University political science professor Sadegh Zibakalam said the unspeakable
Islam in Liberalism
Is Islam inherently opposed to Western liberalism?
Mizrahi music’s new Arab Israeli muslim queen
Is Israel ready for an Arab Mizrahi singer?
Two
Bilingual collection of poems and prose joins young Arabic, Hebrew writers
Many admirers, few disciples
The life and legacy of Rav Kook
God wanted peace, so Carter chimed in
The most impressive fact about the 1979 Camp David Accords
“Arab,” “Jew,” and identity in Israel
In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town
Daniel Gordis in Purgatory
In portraying a saint-like Begin, Gordis is attempting to silence contemporary critics of today’s Likud-led government
Before the revolution
Israeli director Dan Shadur talks about his new documentary about life under the Shah
Reading Persian in Jerusalem
As Israel and Iran trade threats, first Iranian novels appear in Hebrew
Hanin Zoabi, Balad, and the Jewish vote
MK Hanin Zoabi has had a tough term
City pirates
Shoedei Yam, a new Jerusalem gallery, presents art with attitude and a sense of history
Jonathan Kis-Lev’s Jerusalems
Entering the Art and Soul Gallery on Shlomtzion Ha-Malka Street, you exit Jerusalem
Expatriate act
Maya Arad breaks ground as an Israeli writer—by living in America
Samuel Thrope 