The Jerusalem Report

A slow resurgence for Cuba's Jews

The Moroccan grind

Despite similarities to the Tunisian scenario, protests over the horrific death of a fishmonger are unlikely to expand into a broader challenge to the regime.

A Swiss-Israel merger?

Not quite, but Israel certainly has a lot to learn from Switzerland, which has nearly double its per capita GDP.

Celebrating Jerusalem’s sacredness

A multidisciplinary festival attempts to answer the question of whether a city based on diverse spiritual and religious values can create a civil society in which these differences are set aside.

Books: Hardly a land of milk and honey

Masha Gessen’s history of Birobidzhan tells the absurd story of the failed Soviet project to build a Jewish homeland in the Russian Far East.

Caught in the Meshwork

"Ben Ha-Ha was watching them from the top of the refrigerator; Could this still be a dream? Now his tears came."

The hour of the drawers of water

There is something profound about those who are able to dig below, beneath the surface, beneath the expected.

A study in contrasts

Muhammad al-Madani heads the Palestinian ministry for ‘interaction with Israeli society’ but his Israeli interlocutors claim he has little interest in their story.

Out of the game

Israel has been sidelined in the global intelligence effort against ISIS and other jihadist groups.

Israeli farmers staring into the abyss

Hit by tight profit margins, labor shortages and cheap imports, small farmers are a dying breed.

Fear and loathing in Budapest

Hungary’s Jewish community is thriving, but so are nationalism, anti-Semitism and Holocaust revisionism.

Think different

At 90, industrialist Stef Wertheimer retains a 20/20 vision of the future.

A Vietnamese poet in Tel Aviv

Sabine Huynh was born in Saigon, grew up in France and made Israel her home; Her Hebrew-titled French poetry is making waves.

Books: ‘Holy Shekhinah’

Three novels playing on historical themes provide entertaining reads but succeed to varying degrees.

The People & The Book: Amazing powers

A single person can act to repair the world and make real its potential to be unified.

A misguided fixation

The Jewish Left has yet to internalize that the real obstacle to peace is the Palestinian belief that they alone have an inherent right to the land in dispute.

Getting the big things right

Donald Trump may not be the epitome of refinement, but when it comes to Israel, the Republican candidate is the best choice.

Nothing to fear from Hillary Clinton

Israelis need to take a wider perspective on which of the candidates is good for Israel.

Putting the ball in Jerusalem’s court

The addition of NBA star Amar’e Stoudemire to Hapoel’s roster looks like it might be ‘bashert.’

A tale of debt and darkness

Eliezer Fishman faces the largest ever bankruptcy of an Israeli businessman. How did the banks allow things to go so far?

Reflections from the cave: Brothers in hiding during the Holocaust

In ‘Shalom Italia,’ filmmaker Tamar Tal turns her camera on three Italian brothers and the story of how they hid during the Holocaust.

Peck of pickled pollsters

To the far left I’m a fascist, to the further reaches of the right I’m a traitor to both my countries.

Celebration of water

Delighting in the gifts of the physical world and realizing our vulnerability to the vagaries of nature.

A drumbeat of negative commentary

With a few exceptions, reactions to Shimon Peres’s death in the Arab world painted him as a warmonger, not a peacemaker.

A formula for nation building

Jewish peoplehood is neither an ethnicity nor only an inheritance, but an achievement.

Necessary Stories: Besieged

She needed the money; Rent was overdue and she was hungry; And rates were way down now that the British paras were gone.

Status quo shenanigans

A battle over rail works on the Sabbath left 100,000 people without train services and shone a spotlight on Israel’s fragile coalition politics.

Changing the world in 36 hours

Israelis and Indians get together for a weekend hackathon to tackle pressing health challenges faced by the developing world.

The new Israeli

Groundbreaking journalist Bambi Sheleg, who died of cancer at 58, defied Israel’s social and ideological divisions and willed the country’s reinvention.

The road past Mosul

As forces gather to take on Islamic State in its Iraqi stronghold, the battle is likely to be merely a chapter in the wider story of conflict in the country.