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KIPPOT ARE on display at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. ‘I and many others like me no longer feel comfortable wearing the knitted kippah, long the emblem of modern Orthodox Zionism, in public,’ says the writer.

'I want to start wearing a kippah': 13-year-old former hostage on spiritual awakening after release

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jewish men in the street during Tikkun HaKlali near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023.

'He who travels puts himself at risk': Rabbi, Ukrainian officials warn of annual Uman pilgrimage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Star of David necklace.

Jewish radicalism differs from Islamic and Christian fundamentalism

By URI PILICHOWSKI

A MUSLIM, A JEW, a Hindu, and a Christian band together to fight the bad guys on ‘God’s Gang.’

The message of 'God's Gang': Series creator shares interfaith cartoon's meaning

By HANNAH BROWN

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, last week.

Smotrich's religious-economic concept: It could lead to a lost decade

By GALI INGBER

Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and the US

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Did God save Donald Trump's life to make him US president? (illustration)

Did God save Donald Trump's life to make him US president?

By David Mills/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir during his visit to Temple Mount on 18.7.2024

Ben-Gvir and the Temple Mount: What is he doing and why is he doing it?

Former hostage Moran Stela Yanai speaks in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 30, 2023

Ex-hostage reveals Hamas pressured her to convert to Islam, extorted her family

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir walks near the Western Wall, after visiting the temple Mount on Tisha B’Av, earlier this month.

US criticizes Ben Gvir's Temple Mount visit, sparking debate on Jewish prayer rights

By ALIZA PILICHOWSKI

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting at Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 21, 2024.

G20 welcomes Israeli Jewish organization for the first time

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City as viewed from the Mount of Olives. This place should be for all who are interested in free and safe access and peaceful worship together, the writer maintains.

‘Jewish myth:’ In Arab world, many still refuse to accept existence of the Temples

Scientist examines the human remains found in a tomb in northwestern Spain.

Human bones in Spain likely those of medieval bishop behind popular pilgrimage, study shows

By REUTERS

A religious Orthodox Israeli Jew in a prayer shawl (tallit) is seen praying while keeping a smartphone in front of him.

Want the solution to mental anguish? Try prayer

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN

A plant grows in barren land.

Reflecting on our tragedies also enhances our gratitude for present blessings

By RABBI SHIRA KOCH EPSTEIN/JTA

PEOPLE WAIT under a Star of David reading ‘Jude’ in Tel Aviv on Holocaust Remembrance Day, this year. The writer posits that we must define our identity as Jews through an understanding of who we are, not who the non-Jewish world wants us to be.

Why is Judaism so unique from all other religions?

By BEN M. FREEMAN

Elke Bentley, 18, completed reading the Babylonian Talmud in just two-and-a-half years.

Meet the teenaged girl who read the Talmud in two-and-a-half years

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

An Israeli soldier stands during a two-minute siren marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, at an installation at the site of the Nova festival where party goers were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, May 6, 2024.

Is God an antisemite?

By SHMULEY BOTEACH