Tag: Jerusalem

The mitzvah of taharat hamishpachah (family purity) can be a source of great marital fulfillment and vitality, yet can also - especially for the female partner - cause significant stress, confusion even misery.

As noted here last week, the Monitor is coming up on its tenth anniversary as a weekly column. The very first Monitor ran the week of July 3, 1998, and on the chance that some (a few?) readers might be interested in what the maiden voyage looked like, it appears below.

The Palestinian Authority held the latest in a series of official meetings in Jerusalem to discuss dealing with expected Palestinian sovereignty over key sections of the city.

We live apart, we Jews − partially, by God's command and partially, because of age-old enmity from non-Jews.

We have seen that, among other purposes, Israel needs nuclear weapons to undertake and/or to support various forms of preemption.

I do not think that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government will fall in the near future.

We have seen (in last week's list of reasons, numbers 1 and 2) that Israel needs nuclear weapons, among other purposes, to deter large conventional attacks and all levels of unconventional attack by enemy states.

Fearing the collapse of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government, the Palestinian Authority asked the U.S. government for backing to rush a deal regarding the...

In terming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" last week, did Sen. Barack Obama borrow the phraseology of Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, a...

What - another book about ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? Some of us have an entire bookshelf of these!

"If you do not let my people go," says Moses to Pharaoh, "all of Egypt will be filled with frogs."

Question: Israel is celebrating its 60th birthday. What does the country mean to you?

Esther Pollard doesn't live in a luxury apartment. For years, Esther rented a tiny room in a cheap motel close to the prison to be near her husband.

Contrary to claims by former president Jimmy Carter, Hamas refuses to recognize Israel but will offer the Jewish state a 10-year truce if it...

“How long can a country survive if its intellectuals are working to undermine the very culture the country was built on?” That was the question asked by Yoram Hazony, founder of the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center, a think tank dedicated to countering the influence of Israel’s “new historians” and post-Zionist academics, in his book The Jewish State (Basic Books, 2000), the first thorough – and critical – examination of post-Zionism available in English and still a must-read for anyone interested in Israeli history and politics.

U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are expected to generate a principal agreement by the end of the year to establish a Palestinian state in the West...

As reported last week in The Jewish Press, Sen. Barack Obama's military adviser and national campaign co-chairman has implied that U.S. politicians are afraid...

In her monthly trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority next week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to criticize Israel for its announced plan to build new housing for Jews in Jerusalem.

Israeli media have portrayed the assassinated planner of this month's Jerusalem shooting massacre as a member of the Islamic Jihad terror group - yet...

Did Israeli police allow the Muslim custodians of the Temple Mount to carry out illegal construction on the Mount last week that may have...

Sen. Barack Obama has spoken at fundraisers for Palestinians living in what the United Nations terms refugee camps, this column has learned.Palestinians have long...

Some artists' iconoclastic, bohemian behavior gets them into trouble.

I met a friend several weeks ago at a hastily called grassroots meeting at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills to discuss Israel's difficult predicament.

The Palestinian Authority, aided by international donors, will attempt to open official institutions in Jerusalem within weeks, PA officials said.Hatem Abdel Khader, a leader...

Recent news reports identifying Robert Malley as one of Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisers took the Monitor back a few years, to the summer of 2001 when the previously obscure Malley was suddenly popping up all over the place, castigating Israel for the collapse of the Camp David talks in 2000.

Current behind-the-scenes Israeli-Palestinian talks include negotiations aimed at dividing Jerusalem, according to a senior Palestinian negotiator involved in the negotiations."Since Annapolis , our...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas this week declared three days of mourning for the death of an infamous terrorist leader whose career included leading the hijacking of airliners in the U.S. and vehemently opposing peace agreements with Israel.

President Bush's visit to Israel earlier in the month had an air of absurdity to it.

When things get bad, I must remember that thousands of people in Israel are doing wonderful mitzvot daily, and we cannot become discouraged.

Estie Solomon and her son Dovid (a superb photographer) spent quality time touring their new home, the State of Israel, and created a Box of Chocolate format for presenting the goodies that abound in the Holy Land.