I Think I Love You

By Emily Stern
Published on March 17, 2013

An outsider’s viewpoint on the Sandy Hook shooting

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on December 18, 2012

Iron Dome, now protecting Tel Aviv, highly successful in intercepting rockets

Published on November 20, 2012

With hundreds of rockets raining down from Gaza, Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has saved an untold number of lives thanks to Israeli technological ingenuity and U.S. support.

Jews and guns

By Dennis Prager
Published on August 8, 2012

It is a given among liberal and progressive Jews that gun ownership among the general population is a bad thing. The ideal is near-universal disarmament with only a handful of individual exceptions and, of course, the police.

Go ahead, make my High Holy Day

Published on September 4, 2009

Fearing jihadists will attack synagogues during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a group of badass rabbis has developed a program to turn your average shul-goer into a lean, mean fighting machine.

Briefs: Survey to catalog landmark Boyle Heights buildings to prevent destruction; Chabad expands on West Coast

Published on March 8, 2007

Briefs

Awareness Center and other blogs draw praise and scorn

By Eugene L. Meyer
Published on January 11, 2007

There is no unabridged database of rabbinic sexual abusers. But there is the Awareness Center. It's not a physical place, but a Baltimore post office box, cellphone number and Web site.

Gear Up for an Israel Vacation

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on June 15, 2006

We've identified select products to help with common travel dilemmas. Peruse our list for solutions to help you pack light, avoid sunburns, save on batteries and more.

World Briefs

By JTA Staff
Published on March 11, 2004

World Briefs

Providing Save Haven

By Sharon Boorstin
Published on April 4, 2002

Suddenly, instead of being journalist and subject, we are two Jews sharing our fears about anti-Semitism and the fate of the world.

Pushing the Limits

By Gil Sedan
Published on October 5, 2000

In less than a week, whatever was left of the mutual trust between Israelis and Palestinians appeared to come tumbling down.

On Guard in the West Bank

By David Margolis
Published on January 7, 1999

Is this me? Eight o'clock on a Tuesday evening, I'm strolling down the ordinary street of my town, carrying an M-16 rifle. Tonight, it's my turn again to do shmirah, guard duty, a chore required about once a month of every male resident here at Beit Yattir, the West Bank village where I live part time.

Israel: A Time of Change

By Larry Derfner
Published on September 3, 1998

On Aug. 9, the "Tel Aviv Serial Rapist," who has the city's women looking over their shoulders in fear, evidently tried to commit his 10th rape in the last six months, but police say he let his pleading victim go, and ran off. On the same day, Police Minister Avigdor Kahalani advised Israelis to do two patrol shifts a month with the volunteer Civil Guard in their towns and cities.

Power, Politics And People

Published on August 13, 1998

During his bizarre, self-incriminating appearance on the witness stand at the close of his terrorism trial in Brooklyn federal court last month, 24-year-old Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer freely admitted nearly every accusation thrown at him by prosecutors. But not the knife.