The Jerusalem Report

The Battle Over Orthodoxy

A struggle is on between those who wish to minimize the ideological spectrum of Orthodoxy and the modernizers who wish to push the boundaries.

Can Generation Y hold the fort?

The young generation’s self-centeredness has grave implications for Israel’s security, say Haifa University academics Tamar and Oz Almog.

Lest They Be Forgotten

The IDF’s MIA unit leaves no stone unturned in its quest to clarify the fate of every missing soldier.

Lebanon: Teetering on the edge

No one has yet found the way to mesh communal and civic identities in a way that will enable Lebanon to survive and prosper.

Crude Awakening

The global oil glut’s biggest victim is the poor, fractured and desperate Arab world.

Israel’s Palestinian dilemmas

Jerusalem has given up conflict resolution in the short run, but a strategy of conflict management presents its own predicaments.

Necessary Stories: Grasping at the void

Trees for grandchildren

The joy of planting for future generations.

Bellicose culture mogul

Minister Miri Regev takes aim at Israel’s national theater, Habima.

Books: The Demjanjuk legal saga

Lawrence Douglas assesses the achievements and failures in the decades-long efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

Snatched from oblivion

One woman’s endeavor to discover the names of her young relatives murdered in the Holocaust.

Living in limbo

Residents battle municipal neglect in the mean streets beyond the east Jerusalem barrier.

Peace train building up steam

US may join the desperate international attempt to keep the two-state solution alive.

A long, hard road

Full restoration of the Israel-Turkey strategic ties of old has a long way to go.

Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

US college authorities need to take stronger action against the targeting of Jewish students by anti-Israel activists

Hezbollah at a crossroad

Despite the low probability of war erupting this year, Israel must be ready to meet the challenges posed by Hezbollah at any time.

Pesach: A refugee story

The myth of Exodus presents the hardship of being a refugee, and the journey to Redemption.

Books: Uneasy bedfellows

Exploring the relationships between Hebrew and Yiddish during the turbulent 20th century.

Yiddish: Alive and well, but for how long?

Cautious optimism about the revitalization of the language dealt a lethal blow by the Holocaust.

Is Conservative rebranding enough?

The Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary insists his movement can be revitalized – that it is distinct and fills a religious-communal void.

Mayor Biton: Social warrior

Yerucham is in the midst of a makeover, transforming from a dusty development town into a small boom town.

Bulldozer Katz

Eyeing the top spot, Transport Minister Yisrael Katz is ready to lock horns with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The moral imperative

A central component of our power as a nation is our capacity to meet threats while retaining our humanity and our Jewishness.

The People & The Book: The consequences of gossip

For better or worse, gossip is an eternal feature of human society.

Books: Amichai's University

Two delightful collections of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai and Else Lasker-Schüler.

Necessary Stories: Summer of ’88

I’ve got to save my country. Can you manage with the kids this afternoon?

An Odessa tzimmes

In Ukraine, Jewish food is the new fad – but it is not necessarily kosher.

Kahlon vs. Flug

The finance minister wants competition, the BOI governor, stability. Who is right and can we enjoy both?

War, and madness

After five years of bloodshed in Syria, the disintegrated country has become one of the hinges upon which regional and global events turn.

Shaping the narrative.

Israel fights the Palestinian insurgency solely by military means, but it could act to douse the flames by political means.