Jewish state

This Rosh Hashanah, Israel must remember that we are all partners amid the election - editorial

The test is whether, a year from now, we will still recognize one another as partners in the same extraordinary enterprise: building and defending the Jewish state.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
A Jewish man blows a shofar in the northern Israeli city of Safed, a day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, September 10, 2026.
AVI STUDENTS and stakeholders join for a flag-planting ceremony outside AVI headquarters in October 2024.

If these flags could talk - opinion

There is a prevailing narrative that Israel is alone, but that is not true.

|ByDANIEL KOREN
A DEMONSTRATOR holds an image of deceased Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest outside City Hall in Los Angeles, last week. The supreme leader thought he was invincible, but he was a lazy thinker, the writer notes.

Israel’s strategic independence: The transformation of Middle East politics - opinion

The supreme leader thought he was invincible, but he was lazy in his thinking. He did not do his homework; Israel, on the other hand, did.

|ByLEV STESIN
Armenian Orthodox worshippers arrive at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, January 18, 2026

Patriarchs’ statement on Christian Zionism lacked pastoral care - opinon

Church leaders’ January 17 message prioritizes jurisdiction and control over empathy, dialogue, and guidance for local believers.

|ByREV. DR. PETRA HELDT/THE MEDIA LINE

The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not its failure

Today, the old romanticized image of Israel, shaped more by Exodus the film than by Exodus, the biblical book, no longer gets much of a hearing.

AUGUST 22, 2020ByDONNA ROBINSON DIVINE
ISRAEL’S FIRST prime minister David Ben-Gurion (center) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv May 14, 1948.

What does ‘a Jewish state’ mean?

Should there be a separation between shul and state?

APRIL 27, 2020ByMOSHE DANN
‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’

Book review: Ex-Irish minister says he was framed

Book blames antisemitism for derailing Alan Shatter’s career

NOVEMBER 28, 2019ByYANKY FACHLER
PLO leader Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Irish foreign minister Dick Spring in 1996

Jewish states' citizens' - 'Thorny situations' under review

Dee Corum’s take on the sometimes thorny situations we face here in the Jewish state.

MAY 2, 2019ByDEE CORUM
‘WHETHER ON social media or in real life, the stakes seem high in convincing the world that our lives are great.’