Why it’s still open season on ‘obstacles to peace’

One more Jewish life was just added to the list of those killed during the century-old conflict between Jews and Arabs…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Oslo Accords’ first quarter-century … and their next

Whether the Oslo Accords—the 25-year of their signing that was marked on Sept. 13—were dead-on-arrival or were asphyxiated by an Arab refusal to negotiate, or to abide by them or even to have accepted them over a period of time, remains immaterial…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

Israel’s unabating efforts to thwart terror

The intense focus on the Iranian issue, and in recent months on a possible military escalation in Gaza, has distracted us from a simple fact: The most complicated front Israel must contend with is Judea and Samaria…writes Yoav Limor/JNS. Read more

If Israel was a village of 100 people….

A look at how Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics would see the population… Read more

UK Jews: Unity at any price…writes Isi Leibler

The list of 50 Most Influential Jews published by The Jerusalem Post included Marie van der Zyl, the recently elected president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Read more

Grosvenor was generous and brilliant: a music review by Fraser Beath McEwing

If ever there was a piano recital worth queuing up for it was the one given last night by young English pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor. Read more

Ari Fuld: A staunch defender of Israel and the truth

Ari Fuld died as he lived. He was a robust man of courage with inner and outer strength. So when 17-year-old Khalil Jabarin of Yatta, a village south of Hebron, stabbed him in the back outside the Rami Levy supermarket in Gush Etzion on Sunday morning, it is no surprise that Fuld immediately got back up and started chasing him, drawing his personal handgun at the same time and firing off a shot, wounding the terrorist before collapsing and succumbing to his own wounds…writes Israel Kassnett/JNS. Read more

How feasible is a long-term truce with Hamas?

The prospect of a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas brings with it both risks and opportunities…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

For all our sins…writes Jeremy Rosen

The Torah introduces us to the idea that we confess our sins to God (Leviticus 5:5 and 16:21). To God, not to humans—priests or otherwise—because, according to our tradition, it is a question of human dignity not to demean ourselves in the eyes of other human beings by revealing our errors to other humans. Read more

Feintooner

Feintooner: The man who knew too little

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Dr Clown

Amnon Raviv has earned a PhD in medical clowning, a subject which is intensely serious but produces smiles from so many who have so little to laugh about. Read more

Who’s in the running for the next mayor of Jerusalem?

The late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek used to say that if one wants to uproot and replant a tree in Jerusalem, it might require the U.N. Security Council. He was not exaggerating…writes Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman/JNS. Read more

Trump is not an unindicted co-conspirator

During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) questioned the legitimacy of the judge’s appointment to the High Court.  Blumenthal said in his opening remarks:  “The president of the United States who has nominated you is an unindicted co-conspirator…”  Senator Cory Booker has also characterised Trump as “an unindicted co-conspirator”…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Trump squeezes UNRWA, checkmates PLO and incentivises Jordan

President Trump has created a veritable diplomatic tsunami affecting the political fortunes of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Hamas and Jordan – with his decision to cease all future donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – currently US$360million per annum and comprising about 30% of UNRWA’s budget…writes David Singer. Read more

Jews come home for Yom Kippur

A Yom Kippur feature from Rabbi Raymond Apple.

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Special envoy Greenblatt: ‘Palestinian leadership is not talking to us—much to their detriment’

Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help negotiate the peace plan between the Israelis and the Palestinians…writes Josh Hasten/JNS. Read more

King Abdullah, let’s keep the geography correct

The report from the Al-Bawaba news web site, based in Amman, Jordan, was headlined: “Amman to White House: Jordan is Not Palestine”…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

The renewal of a community

Recently I returned  from a sabbatical in Israel which gave me time for introspection and reflection…writes Rabbi Shneur Reti-Waks. Read more

Welcome to the United Arab Kingdom?

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas recently told a group of Israeli activists that the Trump administration proposed a confederation between the Palestinians and Jordan…writes Israel Kasnett/JNS. Read more

Why equality doesn’t belong in the nation-state law

Ever since Israel’s nation-state law was enacted in July, one constant refrain has sounded: The law should have included a provision guaranteeing equality to all Israelis. It’s not only the law’s opponents who say this; so do many of its supporters, liberals and conservatives alike. But they are wrong…writes Evelyn Gordon/JNS. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon:  Ending the Occupation Read more

Why did the Clintons share the stage with Farrakhan?

Imagine President Trump being invited to speak at the funeral of a white singer who he admired (say Ted Nugent, if he were to pass) and seeing that David Duke was on stage in a place of honour…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Beyond Survival: A Holocaust memoir – a book review by Elana Bowman

Before Kristallnacht, (ironically to any one reading this book), Germany followed the letter of the law. It was the law who started censoring and isolating the Jews. It was laws who prevented Jews from owning businesses, living in their houses, working in communities, attending schools. Read more

Meeting the Queen

Imagine you just received a Royal invitation from her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to a one on one engagement at Buckingham Palace. Your first reaction is total excitement you notify your wife, your kids your extended family and friends….writes Rabbi Eli Schlanger. Read more

On the other hand…writes Michael Kuttner

There is no better way to end this year and start a new one than by acknowledging more good and positive news. Read more

The Head of the Year

We are about to enter the season of long synagogue services, with a liturgy that, when translated into English or any vernacular, strikes many people as archaic, distant, and even irrelevant. How many of us can make literal sense of most of the concepts?…writes Jeremy Rosen. Read more

Why Jews now find themselves in the eye of the Western storm

Anti-Semitism is now a major issue in the West…writes Melanie Phillips/JNS. Read more

Who shall live and who shall die? The lessons of Syria

The centerpiece of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy is the “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer: “Let us tell how utterly holy this day is.”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Jeremy Corbyn: How he is making British Jews nervous enough to consider leaving

As one of the world’s oldest democracies, the United Kingdom has come to be seen as a country on the forefront of Western values and tolerance…writes Eric Berger/JNS. Read more

25 years of illusions about Oslo

When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests from the foreign-policy establishment were loud and anguished. Read more

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