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Most Israelis are willing to promote compromise on clauses in the judicial reforms

Left-wing Israelis feel less comfortable in Israel than they did a year ago

 DEMONSTRATORS BLOCK the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest against the planned judicial overhaul, on Saturday night. The world is mesmerized, says the writer
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Thousands of Reform Jews send letters to Israeli embassies, Netanyahu, protesting Judicial reform

 THIS HIGH Holy season’s all-encompassing spirituality buried another once-foundational truth: that traditional Israeli Judaism is sclerotic and only Diaspora Jews are free enough to be creative.

Enjoying Israel's different ways of celebrating the New Year - opinion

Rabbi Marc Rosenstein

Book Review: Conflicting visions for the State of Israel


IDF urged to allow chametz on army bases during Passover

The letter to the Chief of Staff asks to ensure the supply of kosher food for Passover does not justify a ban on the holding of chametz by secular or non-Jews.

IDF SOLDIERS from the 669 Unit during a training exercise last year.

Dissension in the home; dissension in the homeland

Let there be no doubt that one day a majority of Palestinian Arabs will condemn the self-indulgent and corrupt Palestinian leadership for the crimes they are committing against their own people.

The author’s Zayde, Efraim Fishel Onrot, with son, Jacob, and grandson, Lee Atkins

The decades that transformed Judaism

It will take a long time for Judaism 3.0 to develop.

KING FAISAL I at Versailles during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, where he advocated for Zionism. The French expelled him from Syria in 1920.

Applying Israeli sovereignty: It’s now or never - opinion

The current debate about applying Israeli sovereignty to parts of the land beyond the Green Line could be of great importance to the future of Israel and its people.

A RECENT view of the Jordan Valley – no longer an area of strategic significance.

Egyptian official on Palestinian TV denies Jewish history in Israel

The appearance was part of a wider narrative by the Palestinian Authority, which insists that archaeological evidence of a continuous Jewish presence in Israel is forgery.

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Celebrating the Jewish New Year in Moscow with Zarakh Iliev

In accordance with Jewish tradition, the Jewish New Year is celebrated on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which usually falls in late September or early October.

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Amnesty tries banning Jewish history

The possibility that Jews and Christians would visit holy sites, and want to see archaeological remnants of biblical locations for their religious and historical significance, is not entertained.

Palestinians walk past the Dome of Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on January 13, 2017

Arab MKs and Palestinians jointly seek to censure Israel at U.N.

“Anyone who cooperates with the Palestinian Authority against Israel should ask themselves whether their rightful place is in the Palestinian or Israeli parliament,” Edelstein said.

Attending the conference at the Knesset yesterday are, from second left, B’Tselem head Hagai El-Ad and MKs Aida Touma-Sliman, Ayman Odeh and Dov Henin

A democratic nation state of the Jewish people

The new law does not erode a single right or protection of any minority. It actually reaffirms Israel’s commitment to minority groups.

The Knesset votes on the nation-state bill, July 19, 2018

‘A milestone’ victory for Shabbat observant sports competitors

Shabbat Team says it has fielded dozens of complaints in recent years by religious sportsmen in different fields who have found it impossible to compete.

Culture Minister Miri Regev cabinet meeting March 11, 2018

Opposing segregation

Struggling against segregation is not just about one law. It is about the larger struggle for coexistence and having more contact between Israel’s numerous diverse communities.

Protests against the nation-state bill in Tel Aviv, July 14th, 2018