How do we forge ahead after calamity? The Jewish way of mourning offers a roadmap.
by Rabba Sara Hurwitz (JTA) — On Monday morning, we began our day at Maharat, the women’s Orthodox yeshiva, with heartbreak. As we absorbed reports…
Opinion
Where conflict is news, stories of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation go missing
by Michael M. Cohen (JTA) — In January 2001, I was working at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located on Kibbutz Ketura along the Israeli-Jordanian…
‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — When Benjamin Netanyahu put his controversial calls for judicial reform on pause two weeks ago, many thought the protesters in…
Review: ‘Shortest History of Israel and Palestine’ may not be balanced but its conclusions are sound
Reviewed by Deborah Shatz (AJNews) – The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace by Michael Scott-Baumann…
The settlers’ attack on Huwara is not the Orthodox Judaism I grew up on
by Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum (JTA) — Nighttime in Huwara, a small Palestinian town in the West Bank. Jews in large skullcaps and sidelocks, prayer fringes dangling from…