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Illustrative: A Superbus driver waits for passengers at the entrance to Jerusalem, August 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Chaya Houpt

How we treat people is who we are: A tale of two bus drivers

It’s tempting to let fear spiral into hypervigilance, but I choose love instead, tolerating daily uncertainties for the sake of my sense of self

Photo of British Embassy Tel Aviv taken by Shlomo Kates.

Shlomo Kates

Why Britain’s East Jerusalem consulate had to go

Israel’s decision to shut the diplomatic post may look like retaliation, but it exposed a UK Middle East policy built on an increasingly untenable fiction

Macklemore performs at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, September 5, 2026, as a screen behind him displays a message reading, “Holocaust survivor says stop the genocide in Gaza.” (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Daphne Lazar Price

Macklemore turned a concert into a political ambush

The rapper can advocate for Gaza and a ‘Free Palestine’ – but there is a difference between inviting an audience into a cause and springing it on them

I love Petah Tikva sign on October 6, 2022 (Dr. Avishai Teicher/ WikiCommons)

Marni Davimes

The Jewish state would like to buy a vowel

Israel cannot agree on its borders, its future or what happened yesterday. But for NIS 250,000, we may finally learn how to spell Petah Tikva

(Fabio Principe / iStock)

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Meta agreed to protect America’s children. Who will protect Israel’s?

After nearly three years of war on their screens, Israeli children deserve the same safeguards Meta has agreed to provide American teens

Gila Zarbiv

Violence is winning

It shouldn’t. It undermines the values of those who wield it. And when Haredi kids block my way to an MDA call, they both get the law wrong and miss the whole point of it

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi youth near Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.

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Sep 9, 2026, 4:00 PM

The chickens come home to roost

Since the inception of the settlement policies in the occupied territories of various Israeli governments the considered opinion of most international lawyers, and international institutions, including the UN Security Council and the International Court of Justice, has been that...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:54 PM

Backsliding Into Tribalism: A Response to Mijal Bitton

In her Times of Israel op-ed of September 4, Dr. Mijal Bitton admonishes “liberal Jews everywhere” that “Jewish survival isn’t immoral”—and she calls for an “internal fight” against Jews like me to achieve the “reawakening and rededication of the...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:49 PM

Epistle From MI Rabbis: Jewish Safety & Israel

Just weeks after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel skipped the Michigan Democrats' nominating convention due to fears of antisemitic harassment and violence from within the Democrats, an attacker came after Dr. Amy Acton on the campaign trail in her...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:47 PM

Why the AfD doesn’t shock me like it used to

Eleven years ago, I walked into the home of a man I regarded as one of the faces of Europe's radical right. I was making a documentary tracing the footsteps of members of my family who had been murdered...

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Sep 9, 2026, 3:43 PM

Israel Election: Who are the Major Players?

Gadi Eizenkot , former Israeli minister without portfolio and the 21st Chief of General Staff of the Israeli army, speaks during the Herzliya Conference at Reichman University in Herzliya on June 24, 2024. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP via Getty Images)

The lists for the upcoming Knesset elections are closed now. Thirty-eight political parties have submitted candidate lists to the Central Elections Committee. Many of those parties have little realistic chance of passing Israel’s 3.25 percent electoral threshold. The most...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:41 PM

Rosh Hashanah, Kingship, and the Danger of Male Power

Of the three central themes of Rosh Hashanah—zichronot (remembrance), shofarot (the shofar blasts), and malchuyot (kingship)—it is malchuyot that troubles me most. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, the liturgy asks us to crown God as King (Melech). For many, this inspires...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:39 PM

Between 9/11 and 7/10: Lessons in and from Memory

The author speaking at a ceremony in memory of fallen soldiers held just after the conclusion of a round of fighting in Gaza

Part and parcel of life in Israel, particularly as an IDF officer, is finding yourself sitting in memorial ceremonies and visiting the homes of heartbroken families. Too many of them. For fallen soldiers. For victims of terror. A small...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:37 PM

How Israeli Innovators Rebuilt the Modern Supply Chain From the Ground Up

Modern supply chains have increasingly found themselves in the news cycle of late due to a diverse range of challenges and disruptions that have caused businesses to slow their operations. However, Israeli firms appear to be creating cutting-edge solutions...

Sep 9, 2026, 3:36 PM

Two Restored States, One Recognized

What Lithuania and Somaliland reveal about the politics of sovereignty Lithuania and Somaliland share a striking story. Both emerged from collapsed political unions after authoritarian repression. Both appealed to an earlier period of independence, built public support, and established institutions...

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Sep 9, 2026, 3:20 PM

The Coffee House Theorem

In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffee house on Tower Street in the City of London. It was not remarkable for its coffee. It was remarkable for what happened inside it. Ship captains brought news of voyages. Merchants brought...

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