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Written in a clear but poignant style, Rav Kaplan, expounds on the deep historic-spiritual relationship the Jews have with the city of Jerusalem. Providing the fullness to why Jerusalem is so revered in the Jewish imagination and explaining in a lurid fashion the great devotion the Jews have had for this spot on earth 1000's of years before the birth of Jesus and Mohammad.

A number of observers have pointed out that the recent so-called “crisis” between Israel and the US over Jerusalem has been artificially flavored by the Obama administration's issuing of unreasonable and, even, unhelpful demands. / / And despite the fact that the issue is relatively obscure – not touching on holy sites or on questions of future borders (as Ramat Shlomo, the neighborhood concerned in the original flap, consists of 20,000 Jews and has never been considered up-for-grabs in any final status negotiation) – and has produced no real violence, the issue is..

Author: Gideon Levy / Date of Pub: 29/11/2009 / / Those types have always been seen on big-city streets, talking to themselves, asking and answering, shouting, speaking in a low voice, deliberating and pontificating. As children, we were afraid of them. They were "crazy." That's exactly what Israeli public discourse is like. We are talking to ourselves, inventing bogus axioms and sticking with them as if they were decreed from on high, convinced that the whole world accepts them. But we are only talking to ourselves. No one else accepts them. The Israeli collective is not only..

Benny Morris' new books and historical outlook bring the era of post-Zionist history to its inglorious end.

Author: Matt Kennard / Date of Publishing: 5th August, 2009 /   / A couple of months ago I spent a fortnight in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement – activists who help Palestinians non-violently resist Israeli oppression. The most pressing of many issues during my stay was the attempts by an Israeli settler company, Nahalat Shimon, backed by the Israeli courts, to cleanse East Jerusalem of its Arab population, focusing its efforts at that time on the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. /   / I spent a week sleeping on a floor in the house of the Hanoun family –..

On March 3, 2009, former CNN producer Nidal Rafa launches a verbal tirade against Yisrael Beiteinu MK Danny Ayalon following a debate in Jerusalem between Ayalon and Balad MK Jamal Zahlaka on citizenship and identity.

A former U.S. federal judge reviews Aharon Barak's latest book "The Judge in a Democracy." Bork critiques Barak's judicial philosophy as a real obstacle to representative governance.

Ruth Wisse puts the Israel-Arab conflict into a fact-based geographic and political context in The Harvard Crimson.

I walked home one night after a difficult evening along Hayarkon river as it glowed in the lamplight. I felt utterly alone and atomized as I came upon the river—feeling that I should be witnessing the scene of beauty with someone else, to comment on it, to discuss it, to enjoy it. But then something came over me. My eyes nearly filled with tears. My heart swelled as I looked around at the land, at the lamp posts, at the sky, at the river itself and the loneliness evaporated and I knew myself to be a complete part of a complete and nearly perfect being. And I realized that this being was Israel—not..