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Israel President slams 'deeply inappropriate' Board of Deputies statement on controversial MK Smotrich

Isaac Herzog made the comments in a speech to the Jewish Agency for Israel

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Incoming Israeli president Isaac Herzog looks on during a press conference at the president's residence in Jerusalem, during a handover ceremony, on July 7, 2021. - Isaac Herzog, a veteran of Israel's Labor party, was sworn in before parliament today as the Jewish state's 11th president, replacing Reuvin Rivlin in the largely ceremonial post. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

A sabbatical we should all take

A sabbatical we should all take

By Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair

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How Jewish is Jewish? The battle over Israel’s conversion system

Anshel Pfeffer

By Anshel Pfeffer

How Jewish is Jewish? The battle over Israel’s conversion system

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 12: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the Jerusalem Post's annual coference on October 12, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel. The conference featured officials, diplomats and business leaders discussing the health, economic and security challenges facing Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israeli PM pledges support to Ukraine in call with country’s president

By Mathilde Frot

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Arafat used the 'apartheid Israel' smear – but it goes back even further

Dan Diker

Arafat used the 'apartheid Israel' smear – but it goes back even further

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Director of Whitworth gallery reportedly forced out after row over ‘apartheid Israel’ exhibition

Director of Whitworth gallery reportedly forced out after row over ‘apartheid Israel’ exhibition

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Israeli designer rustles up an ingenious crisp packet you can open with just one hand

Israeli designer rustles up an ingenious crisp packet you can open with just one hand

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

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Noa Gendler

As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me

I'm past being annoyed, even though my kind of religious, egalitarian Judaism is popular elsewhere

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February 23, 2022 09:24

As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me

Daniel Meron

By Daniel Meron

How Israel's Covid diplomacy is helping the world

It is a core core Jewish value that we must help those who need it

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February 22, 2022 17:54

Health workers load a box containing doses of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 into a plane for it delivery in the country's hospitals after 5,000 doses donated by Israel arrive at the Air Force base, in Guatemala City on February 25, 2021. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP) (Photo by JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Tu Bishvat’s symbolism is about more than trees

There is a wider context to Tu Bishvat which has become ever more meaningful

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January 14, 2022 00:00

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 28: Rabbi Michael Wollenberg's family mark Tu B'Shvat at their home in Woodford Green, on January 28, 2021 in London, England. Rosh HaShanah L'ilanot, (the new year of the trees), is commonly known as Tu B'Shvat, and marks the season in which the earliest blooming trees start their 'fruit bearing' cycle in Israel. For nearly the last year, the covid-19 pandemic and its resulting limits on public gatherings have forced religious communities to find new ways to observe their holiday, with many events being marked at home in small family groups. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

In challenging times, Israel offers good news for 2022

In spite of everything, the signs for 2022 are good

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January 7, 2022 09:00

View of Tel Aviv beach in summer time with Israel Flag

Josh Glancy

What looks like apartheid also keeps Israel secure

Comparisons with the old South Africa ignore attempts to totally destroy the Jewish state

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June 17, 2021 09:29

What looks like apartheid also keeps Israel secure

The war heroine of Athens given Israel’s great honour

Princess Alice took enormous risks to save a Jewish family during the Holocaust

By Marc Goldberg

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April 15, 2021 09:50

G55NMP Royalty - Princess Alice of Greece - Heathrow Airport

Israel set to impose two-week flight ban to aid fight against Covid

Prime Minister and senior officials have provisionally agreed plans. Arrival permits will be allowed only ‘in exceptional circumstances’

By Rachel Steinberg

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January 24, 2021 14:09

A boy sits on donkey-drawn cart loaded with a water tank, as drinking water and fuel become increasingly scarce, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

The one sure way to achieve peace

Intense negotiations will not necessarily work; intense empathy will

By Simon Baron-Cohen

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June 4, 2009 10:55

The tiresome japes of Roth: Operation Shylock review

By  Norman Lebrecht

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April 3, 1993 09:00

The author Philip Roth in 1993 (Alamy)

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