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The Holy Land model, featured at the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, depicts Jerusalem during the late Second Temple period as seen from the east. The Temple Mount and Herod’s Temple are located in the middle.

'Embracing Exile': Defending Jewish Diaspora as source of identity, prosperity, pride

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

The first building ever discovered in Yavne from the Sanhedrin era. It contained fragments of ‘measuring cups’ identified with a Jewish population.

Israeli archaeology professor faces calls to be dropped from nat'l conf. over West Bank dig stance

By JOANIE MARGULIES

An Israeli flag flutters outside the embassy of Israel in Dublin, Ireland, December 16, 2024

Youth are the key to rebuilding Israeli society

By SHLOMI CASTRO

Druze have been serving in the IDF since the state was born.

New education initiative will teach students Druze history in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SETTLERS HURL stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season, near the settlement of Yitzhar in 2020.

Light sentences expected for 4 Jews convicted of endangering Palestinians in Ahuvia Sandak

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

A torn Israeli flag is seen near the northern border with Lebanon, July 21, 2024

People are quickly forgetting history and labeling Israel as the oppressor

By COOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

A man is seen constructing a sukkah for the Sukkot holiday.

Israel's path to unity in the Sukkah

Jewish men hold Israeli flags as they dance at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during Jerusalem Day celebrations, June 5, 2024.

Are we living in Messianic times? Only time will tell

By URI PILICHOWSKI

Israeli Kabbalah Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi warns: Gog and Magog war begins, nations opposing Israel will die.

Mystical rabbi warns: Gog and Magog war begins, nations opposing Israel will die

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Letters

Letters to the Editor, June 23, 2024: Look in the mirror

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

PRO-PALESTINIAN students from various Turkish universities demonstrate outside the main campus of Istanbul University last month. The mantra of the campus activists is that Israel is a settler and colonialist regime, says the writer.

Unraveling the false branding of Israel as a settler-colonial state

By IRVING YITZ GREENBERG

DAVID LEVY is presented with the Israel Prize by then-education minister Naftali Bennett at the annual ceremony in Jerusalem, on Independence Day 2018.

Saying farewell to the late David Levy, a trailblazer of his time

By AVI NACHMANI

Demonstrators set fire to a flag of Israel during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in support of Palestinians in Gaza and to condemn the Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, in Mexico City, Mexico June 1, 2024.

The world's silent endorsement of antisemitism perpetuates the 'lying Jew' trope

By DAPHNE KLAJMAN

A MAN blows the shofar to mark Independence Day at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

The modern exodus and messianic fulfillment is today's Israel

By YITZ GREENBERG

Tel Aviv citizens waiting to have their passport photos taken, January 23, 1949

Before biometrics: Israel's earliest passports and travel documents

A woman waves an Israeli flag as people gather during the event "100 days 100 voices" to mark 100 days since the October 7 Hamas attack, calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, in front of the Opera Bastille in Paris, France, January 14, 2024

We must celebrate this Independence Day to show our enemies they will not win

By RABBI AVI BERMAN

‘THE WORLD Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’; Holocaust education, which includes books like this one, is failing survivors, says the writer.

The state of Holocaust education is dire, and the situation is failing survivors

By ANDREA SAMUELS

CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENTS on campus in front of hostages, near the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, New York City, April 24.

History repeats itself, and we cannot forget the mistakes that our democracies made

By MARVIN HIER