The matter is brought to the priest, and she is subjected to a public ritual meant to determine whether his suspicion is true ...

Ninety years ago, in a Europe beginning to succumb to the rise of Nazism and the complicit silence in the face of intolerance, the World Jewish Congress was born in Geneva. The or ...

Professor Oren Yiftachel is a geography and planning researcher at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, and UCL, London.

This June and July, Toronto will host six games in the FIFA World Cup. These are important, but Toronto is no stranger to important soccer matches. Seventy years ago, Maccabi Tel Aviv played the ...

From the blog of Harold Behr at The Times of Israel ...

When Palestinians do something, we are immediately informed that Palestinians had nothing to do with it. It was Hamas. Or Islamic Jihad. Or militants. The Israeli side, apparently, enjoys collective ...

This week, I will fly across America to march in New York’s Israel Day Parade. For some people, that decision makes no sense. It can be infuriating. Why would a Muslim march in ...

Stéphane Hessel was precisely such a figure; The fact that Hessel’s name – and certainly his critique – remains largely unknown in Israel is no coincidence. It reflects a deeper difficulty: the ...

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Returning to Merhavim on Sunday after the Shavuot holiday, we all felt that the year was drawing to a close. For me, it will end a month earlier, since the school year finishes at ...

If Arab parties are legitimate enough to participate in elections, they are legitimate enough to participate in government. In an earlier essay for The Times of Israel, “The Opposition Must Be ...

As Israel heads for its first election since October 7, the Ra'am party leader demonstrates an alternative to grievance and division ...