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Jan 11, 2019, 7:07 PM

How dare you treat us like Palestinians!

Human rights defenders cannot condone the abuse of any human being, Jewish or non-Jewish. This separates us from many on both the "left" and the "right," and is reflected in the joint statement of Israeli human rights organizations Torat...

Natalie Katerina Hilder

Nov 30, 2018, 10:39 AM

Truth: A Casualty of War

The axiom that war always brings some tragedy in its wake is undeniable. To suggest otherwise would be naïve romanticism at best, and at worst, murderous. While one can justify acting in self-defence, it cannot be denied that one...

Sep 22, 2018, 6:07 PM

Yom Kippur: Some Personal Reflections and Lessons

Forty-five years ago, on that ill-fated Saturday afternoon, the piercing sirens shattered our lives. I know this is a well-trodden cliché but this is how it happened. My brother and I were at our mother’s flat in Haifa, rejoicing...

Shayna Goldberg

Sep 16, 2018, 10:51 PM

Illustrative. A runner. (iStock)

'Do you know where you're going to?' (In memory of Avner Yonah and Ari Fuld)

Sep 14, 2018, 12:18 AM

I was last in Jerusalem for Yom Kippur in 1973

Jerusalem's Old City walls and Jaffa Gate. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

We experienced a new kind of fear, and we fell in love with the city and the nation forever

Jul 30, 2018, 9:11 PM

When Standing with Israel Is Too Little, Too Late

Following last week's death of 21-year old Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, many observers felt an immediate rise in tension. As the first IDF fatality on the Gaza border since Operation Protective Edge in 2014, some questioned whether this attack...

Jul 20, 2018, 12:42 PM

A war in Gaza, a pair of underpants and Tisha B'Av

Israeli soldiers seen on top of a truck at their termporary set up military camp near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 24, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

What gives you strength to spend the night in a Gaza neighborhood days after your friend was killed in the same situation?

Robert Festenstein

May 24, 2018, 5:39 PM

Remember those existential threats to Israel?

A group of Jews gather in Parliament Square, London, to recite kaddish for 62 Palestinians killed in Gaza, on May 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

If you have no memory of the palpable risk of Israel's destruction, you might just say kaddish for terrorists

Sep 29, 2017, 12:38 PM

The truth behind the Yom Kippur surprise

We in the NSA knew well in advance that Syria and Egypt intended to attack Israel on October 6, 1973

Dec 26, 2016, 11:12 PM

We should not be occupiers

An IDF veteran and an ardent Zionist thinks shifting the current demoralizing state of affairs is long overdue

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