Jerusalem post magazine

Rosh Hashanah 2026: Humor, the shofar, and the ability to accept the absurdity of life

When confronted by our own absurdity and inadequacy, Judaism turns the tables and asks us to eat festive meals, sing optimistic songs, and make Rosh Hashanah into a holy celebration.

THE HIGH HOLIDAY repentance cycle, year after year, can be brutal.
SMOKE RISES from Soroka Medical Center on June 19, after an Iranian ballistic missile packed with over 400 kilos of explosives slammed into the Northern Surgical Building, destroying two floors.

Miracle at Soroka: How a frontline hospital weathered October 7, survived Iran war

A RECENT Pew study found that more than 50% of employees don’t want to return to office life.

With the end of the pandemic, comes the return of choice - opinion

LIFE IN the Jewish state: Thrills and chills.

The pain and the pride in remembrance days for Holocaust, fallen soldiers


Make Remembrance Day meaningful by visiting these memorial locations

Although Israel is a pretty young and geographically small country, it is home to countless sites and monuments created in memory of Israelis who lost their lives in service to the state.

Sayeret Shaked Park

Should Israeli law be Jewish? - review

Where does the push for theocracy in the modern Jewish state come from?

THE SUPREME Court holds a hearing last year in Jerusalem.

Age positive

‘Getting old is not a crime” – so says Smadar Ganzi. In this interview with the Magazine, she explains why and what motivated her to start the campaign and a website for ProAging.

JEWELRY CAMPAIGN, 1986.

Aliyah Story: Imagining Jeremiah wandering there

'Living here is living in history. It’s an astounding little country. No matter where I go, there is something centuries and centuries-old.'

JESSICA SANDLER and dog Louie above the Dead Sea.

Passovers of growing emancipation - opinion

The continuous emancipation of the Jewish nation can be viewed through examining a series of “first” Passovers.

HAVING BEEN purified from Egypt, the nation was ready to celebrate the first Passover in the Promised Land.

Parshat Shmini: The honey and the sting

The deeper lesson of the Torah’s teaching is not that one must have tragedy at the very moment of triumph, but that everything contains its opposite.

A BOY prepares to eat an apple with honey, as is traditional on Rosh Hashanah.

Parshat Shmini: Purity of the soul, restraint and humility

Kashrut is a significant part of Jewish identity. The basic principle of kashrut is that what a person puts into his body affects not only his physical health but the purity of his soul as well.

OU kashrut supervisor at work in a food manufacturing company

Holocaust online resource confronts difficult questions

Yad Vashem began the development of an online learning center, taking questions both from the original material and adding additional material to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center

IN AND AROUND JERUSALEM FOR EVERYONEBy Arnold SlyperKochav Press 310 pages; $29.95

A new tour book shows you The Jerusalem you’re looking for

In and Around Jerusalem for Everyone really is for everyone, whether you’re reading it on the trail or on your couch.

ISRAELI CHILDREN play near the Sataf Springs, featured in the book, just outside Jerusalem.

73+1 reasons why I love Israel - Opinion

Yes, there are imitations, but here is the original Jerusalem Post 17th straight year of new “Reasons I love Israel,” even though 2020 was a year of challenges.

PLAYING MATKOT on Acre beach, which is equipped with a path for disabled swimmers (#42)