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Leonard Grunstein

Jun 14, 2024, 8:11 PM

Jerusalem On My Mind

It was over 3,000 years ago, when Biblical King David declared Jerusalem the capital of the Land of Israel. The attachment of the Jewish People to Jerusalem is unique and enduring. The Old Testament mentions Jerusalem more than six hundred...

Jun 10, 2024, 11:49 AM

Jerusalem Day excludes most Israelis

For many years now, Jerusalem Day has been inextricably identified with Religious Zionists. This is bad for Jerusalem and bad for the holiday. Instead of a colorful, all-Israeli celebration that resonates throughout the country, most Israelis are not even...

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Jun 9, 2024, 6:18 PM

Jerusalem Day 2024

This Jerusalem Day was so different and yet so familiar from last year’s commemoration. On the one hand, celebrations, ceremonies and our traditional march took place as usual. On the other, as with this year’s Independence Day, everything was...

Avidan Freedman

Jun 7, 2024, 11:26 AM

Toxic Weeds on Jerusalem Day

“How can you give flowers to people who want to kill you?” I’m taking part in Tag Meir’s annual “Flower March”, giving out flowers to residents and store-keepers in the Old City’s Muslim Quarter before they are forced to shutter...

Jun 6, 2024, 1:52 PM

‘Meaningful’ Parashat Bemidbar 5784

The Book of Numbers begins with a report of the location and time , in the second year after the exodus from the land of Egypt”. The Tent of Meeting in the Tabernacle (Mishkan) was only one month old....

Jun 6, 2024, 11:09 AM

Jerusalem Day: The Circus of Sovereignty

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the modern-day jester of Jerusalem, with his theatrical arrogance and inflammatory rhetoric, stands before the Damascus Gate like a false emperor, proclaiming with the intensity of a cheap salesman that Jerusalem, the Damascus Gate, and the Temple...

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

Jun 6, 2024, 11:08 AM

Alchemy in the City of Gold

Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, June 5, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

What should have been a celebration of the ethereal and eternal Jerusalem yesterday fell flat and hard like a lead balloon

Jun 6, 2024, 6:35 AM

Jerusalem Day in 1994… and 30 Years Later

He was 23, he was learning in yeshiva, and he lived in an apartment in Jerusalem with a friend. He was not an Israeli citizen -- not yet sure if or when he would be, if he were being...

Sherwin Pomerantz

Jun 5, 2024, 10:22 PM

Hamas Needs to Answer NOW!

The US House of Representatives voted 247 to 155 on Tuesday to pass the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. The America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) commented that the bill responds to the “morally bankrupt and legally baseless attack against Israel”...

Nathan J. Diament

Jun 5, 2024, 12:58 PM

This Jerusalem Day, choose history over propaganda

Two statues stand at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the National Archives Building. A man symbolizes the past, and 'Study the Past' is inscribed on the base. A woman symbolizes the future, and 'What Is Past Is Prologue' is inscribed on the base. (National Archives Building/archives.org, public domain)

American college students should learn the truth about the Middle East, though that may take leaving the ivory tower and visiting Jerusalem

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