Israel

By Sivan Rahav Meir This week’s parashah begins with the lighting of the Menorah in the Mishkan, “Speak to Aaron and say to him: ‘When you light the lamps, the...

I have not written since the first few weeks of the war. I’ve felt a little frozen in time. I remember seeing someone post in December that it was...

By Sivan Rahav-Meir Ophir Basor, a dedicated farmer from Kibbutz Ein Harod, has begun the annual wheat harvest. This year, we have come to appreciate the profound value of agriculture...

ETGAR LEFKOVITS (June 4, 2024 / JNS) A group of bipartisan lawmakers plan to gather on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to celebrate Jerusalem Day and the reunification of Israel’s capital nearly...

By Rafael Medoff On the outskirts of Cairo, on a blistering hot afternoon in May 1942, British Army chaplain Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz ordered the driver of his military transport truck...

Positive news is very rare these days. We are often bogged down in what feels like an unwinnable conflict, with no easy or logical solution. We have renewed our...

By Moshe Phillips This year, Israel’s Yom HaZikaron, the national Memorial Day, will start on the evening of May 12, and will be unlike any other in the Jewish State’s...

By Sivan Rahav-Meir Eden is the sister of IDF Sergeant Roi Dawy, who fell in battle in Gaza. She made sure that everyone who passes through the entrance of Jerusalem...

By Toby Klein Greenwald I conducted two interviews with Col. Golan Vach, 49, one two weeks into the war, from which I bring some excerpts here, and the second almost...

By Reuben M. Gampel As the months pass since the horrific attacks of October 7 by Hamas, it becomes all too easy to lose track of the personal stories of...