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Rebecca Bardach

May 30, 2025, 12:08 AM

Can’t we do better than this Jerusalem Day hatred and violence?

Participants in the Inter-Faith March in Jerusalem for Human Rights and Peace (March 28, 2025). Courtesy of organizers.

It's early afternoon and unseasonably hot. Business in the little store you operate has been slow, though that's been true most days since the war began. Suddenly you hear shouts, pounding feet. You look up just as dozens of...

May 29, 2025, 4:20 PM

Nothing Is Spared: How the Netherlands Turned Against Israel and Its Allies

“May those who love you be secure.” — Psalm 122:6 On the day after Jerusalem Day, in the Dutch town of Barneveld, a peaceful religious gathering organized by Christians for Israel was violently disrupted — before it even began. The event...

May 27, 2025, 10:19 AM

Hebron: Whose Legacy Is It Really?

Hebron is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its origin is Hebrew, not Arabic. The very name “Hebron” (in Hebrew: Chevron, חֶבְרוֹן) comes from the root ח־ב־ר, meaning to connect or to join. It speaks...

May 26, 2025, 10:31 PM

From Zion, A Future: Radiating Jewish Education

Today is Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. For many, it marks the miraculous reunification of our capital in 1967. Yet, for the Jewish people, the significance of this day stretches far beyond politics or geography. It is spiritual. It is...

May 26, 2025, 3:53 PM

Vibrant Jerusalem

Children play on Mitzpeh Tal, Armon HaNatziv, Jerusalem, with the rest of the city in the background. (courtesy)

With parties and parades, calls to prayer, and children's laughter, the ancient city is reborn, spotlighting what matters most

Cedric Vloemans

May 26, 2025, 11:35 AM

Jerusalem Day: Commemorating an Eternal Bond

Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. (2008, Berthold Werner)

Every year on the 28th of the Hebrew month of Iyar, Israel celebrates Yom Yerushalayim—Jerusalem Day—to commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. For many in the Arab world, it is a day of protest or anger, but for...

May 26, 2025, 7:38 AM

One Floor Up in Jerusalem

Yoel Solomon Street is one that many of us who spent time “studying” in Jerusalem will know well—a street we walked up and down countless times. Some even spent a lot of time “Underground” there in years gone by....

May 26, 2025, 7:07 AM

Free Palestine from Whom?

Upon his arrest for the fatal shooting of Israeli two embassy staffers, Yaron Lishinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. the assailant declared, “free, free Palestine.” Of course, if the assailant was truly concerned...

Avidan Freedman

May 25, 2025, 4:07 PM

Don’t Desecrate Jerusalem on Jerusalem Day

It is not hard to think of times and places where intimidating marches took place, whose threatening, violent rhetoric forced Jews to shutter their stores and hide in their homes. When such awful marches take place in our day,...

Jonathan Muskat

May 25, 2025, 5:55 AM

Yom Yerushalayim: Standing Tall When the World Around Us Says to Shrink.

This Monday, we find ourselves experiencing another convergence of holidays, what some might playfully call a “Thanksgivukkah” or “Chrismukkah” moment. These terms, coined when Jewish and secular holidays overlap, bring to mind the blending of Thanksgiving and Chanukah, or...

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