Judy Montagu

Judy Montagu was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and grew up in London. She received a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Manchester, and made aliya in 1972. She joined the editorial staff of The Jerusalem Post in 1983, and has held a number of positions, including op-ed editor and letters editor. Montagu currently writes a bi-weekly social-philosophical column in the opinion pages. She is married, with one daughter.

A baby playing (illustrative)

IN MY OWN WRITE: Media Gone Mad

Yad Vashem

In My Own Write: Rights and obligations

A Veneziana mask from Verona, Italy

In My Own Write: Behind the Purim mask


In My Own Write: Writer’s responsibility

It’s hard to banish the impression that latent or blatant anti-Semitism, mixed with ignorance, lie at the root of the malevolence routinely aimed at Israel as at no other country.

Books

In My Own Write: Israel the enigma

This is a place where paradoxes rise up and biff you on the nose.

A view of Temple Mount

In My Own Write: Public and private

I've always felt an affinity with the Chinese notion that we have an “inside face” and an “outside face.”

ELLIOT JAGER says he has become ‘the poster boy for childlessness.’

In My Own Write: Material man?

There’s something about the phrase 'rich rabbi' that doesn’t sit right.

RABBI YOSHIYAHU PINTO

In My Own Write: What’s ‘done,’ and what isn’t

“In Israel’s public discourse, this simply isn’t done.”

THE KNESSET building.

In My Own Write: Three stages of heroism

Walking step by step toward the light.

Kay Wilson

In My Own Write: What makes a good Jew?

Though her maternal grandparents lit candles and kept Shabbat, her mother and stepfather were Communists. Nonetheless, there is no question in her mind that she is a Jew.

Maya Zack’s ‘The Shabbat Room 4: The Mystical Shabbat’

In My Own Write: Words that grow wings

They can fly away to echo back in ways the speaker never intended.

President Reuven Rivlin

In My Own Write: Positively negative

Are optimists and pessimists born or made?

A depressed woman (illustrative)

In My Own Write: Getting away from it all, sort of

Over there we didn’t feel the need to glance over our shoulders to see who was coming up behind, as we presently tend to do in Jerusalem.

Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest