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Staff Sgt. Shirel Haim Pour who was killed in Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023. And Jina Mahsa Amini an Iranian woman who died unexpectedly on September 16, 2022, while in custody of Iran’s 'morality police' for 'improper' clothing.

Nassrin Pourbahrami

Mahsa and Shirel share a wall in Jerusalem

I grew up being taught that Israel was the enemy. Now I see Iranians and Israelis rediscovering ties the Islamic Republic tried to erase

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Jaclyn S. Clark

Macklemore got dumped. Pink got canceled. Everyone else lost their minds

A billionaire stadium owner – not headliner Ed Sheeran – had the courage to fire the bigoted rapper. What came next was even worse

Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 21, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Lindsey Graham’s white whale

The late US senator thought Saudi-Israel normalization was within reach. He misread Netanyahu on Palestinian statehood

Illustrative: Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jamie Feder

Why this liberal New Yorker made aliyah

When I moved to Israel, some friends disappeared. Hundreds unfollowed me. But all that rejection made me more comfortable with who I am and what I believe

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Nurit Gil

The report card no one sees

In Israel, I learned to measure my children’s education not only by their grades, but also by how they navigate the country, cook a meal – and deal with war

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Magnus Torén

NAZA, moral certainty, and the question haunting me since October 8

The film’s explosive claims about civilian deaths in Gaza demand evidence, not mythology — and Jews everywhere should not be made defendants

9/11

Orly Lavi Travish

Between memory and history

My Hebrew students weren’t alive on September 11, 2001. If memory is to survive as more than a date in a textbook, I have to teach them the vocabulary to pass it on

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Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

Sep 16, 2026, 11:53 AM

What Exactly Were You Applauding?

I am angry. Not disappointed. Not troubled. Not “concerned.” Angry. I am angry at distortions. I am angry at slogans repeated so often that people stop asking whether they are true. I am angry at extraordinarily serious accusations being delivered as settled...

Sep 16, 2026, 11:50 AM

America’s Hidden Weapon in Orbit

The United States has confirmed that operational space-control systems are already in orbit. Available clues suggest their most important capability may be to disable enemy satellites electronically rather than destroy them physically. The United States has taken an extraordinary step...

Bruce D. Forman

Sep 16, 2026, 11:46 AM

Ed Sheeran, Bill Maher, and the People Who Know Everything Except the History

Of all the people I expected to find myself quoting during the Days of Awe, Ed Sheeran and Bill Maher were nowhere on the list. Yet here we are. According to the BBC report, the remaining opening acts on Ed...

Sep 16, 2026, 6:37 AM

Arrogance of the Nations

The end of the Shira that makes up Parshat Ha’azinu, speaks of how Hashem viewed the nations of the world. Moshe explained that when the people turn away from G-d, He will send various nations to be His messenger in...

Sep 16, 2026, 6:36 AM

The Power of Metaphors: From Ha’azinu to Yom Kippur

This Shabbat we find ourselves between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in the midst of a season filled with powerful and sometimes troubling images of God. God is King and Judge; God is a forgiving Father. Soon we will...

Sep 16, 2026, 6:35 AM

Fighting Forward:Yuval David on Jewish Joy, Allyship and Refusing to Be Silenced

Newly named to The Jerusalem Post’s 25 ViZionaries, the Emmy Award–winning actor and filmmaker turned full-time advocate on why the Jewish people have always answered hatred with joy — and why the fight belongs to today’s teenagers as much...

Sep 16, 2026, 5:26 AM

After October 7: Statehood in Question

After October 7: Broken trust, failed political experiments, and the growing question of whether Palestinian statehood can coexist with Israel’s security.

During elections in a democracy, old wounds become fresh again, painful memories are revived. The renewed discussion surrounding October 7 is similar. Governance and high politics, particularly when political actors are responsible for protecting the security and interests of the...

Edward D. Saslaw

Sep 16, 2026, 5:25 AM

The current Government is not “Israel”

What so many call “Israel” when they are angry about one aspect of the current situation or the other, is its current Government. But Israelis will go the polls on October 27. Many Americans assume that this will result...

Sep 16, 2026, 5:24 AM

Which Israeli stories are we allowed to tell?

Filmmaker Leslie Gelrubin Benitah sees the devastation wrought on Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, in this still from 'Milk and Honey, Blood and Tears.' (Courtesy)

When festivals embrace an Israeli film on Gaza while calling my story of Be'eri too ‘sensitive,’ they’re deciding not just what audiences see, but what they believe

Elizabeth Gaer-Levi

Sep 16, 2026, 5:22 AM

When being Jewish starts to feel like being permanently “on call”?

There is a lot to have an opinion about right now. Trump. Gaza. Iran. Antisemitism. Netanyahu. The next Israeli election. The next American one. Whether everyone is making aliyah or threatening to leave Israel. Whether artificial intelligence is going to...

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