Israel

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

June 18, 2020 3:37 pm·

Lonely men and women of faith-by Timothy P. Carney, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Siraj Hashmi

Our Sunday Best Timothy P. Carney Around 11 p.m. on a Sunday night in May 2009, I stood outside Dahlgren chapel at Georgetown University in…

January 30, 2020 12:01 pm·

Hate multiplies when a blood libel goes viral

A flooded street during a rainy day in Gaza City. (Image: Flash90) This week, tragedy — a parent’s worst nightmare —struck an Arab…

December 30, 2019 12:04 pm·

The erasure of women has a deadly impact

In Israel, a man rides a bike down a busy street. Instead of passing the slow moving bus before him, he trails closely behind it.…

November 22, 2019 12:06 pm·

A country of many regions but united in crisis

For a small country, we have a lot of regions. There is the “Tzafon” or “North”, where everyone who doesn’t live there goes for holiday…

October 18, 2019 12:08 pm·

Israel: the land where paradox is paradise

The paradox of being Israeli is life under both extreme uncertainty and reassuring predictability. We don’t know what’s happening on our borders. We don’t know…

September 18, 2019 11:24 am·

Not everyone wants her face plastered on a billboard

(Yamina campaign posters featuring the party head, Ayelet Shaked, outside a Jerusalem polling station, September 17, 2019. (Anne Gordon/The Times of Israel) This season’s elections…

August 20, 2019 11:11 am·

Hope comes from working together

Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle They say that hospitals and auto-repair shops are the great equalisers of Israeli society, where you’ll find Israelis of…

August 18, 2019 1:12 pm·

I’m Israeli. Netanyahu Is Wrong. He Should Let Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib Visit

Originally published in The Forward This morning, it was reported that Israel would be denying entry to two U.S. Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib,…

July 25, 2019 11:38 am·

Something’s rotten in the state of Orthodoxy

Men’s access to the grave of Rabbi Yosef Caro zt”l, in Tsfat, Israel. The men are able to draw close enough to even kiss the…

May 30, 2019 11:41 am·

A few pointers for the political parties of 2019

Illustrative. Ballot boxes at the Central Election Committee to be sent to polling stations ahead of election day, March 6, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)…

April 30, 2019 6:59 pm·

You cannot disconnect Passover and Zionism

It is perhaps one of the most brilliant — and diabolical — tactics, to take a part of someone’s tradition, discard the rest, and use…

March 12, 2019 11:50 am·

Why are rabbis protecting Malka Leifer?

Ellie Sapper, Nicole Meyer, me, and Dassi Erlich, in Jerusalem, in November 2018. (courtesy) In November 2018, I sat with Elly Sapper, Dassi Erlich and…

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SKJ speaks internationally about Judaism, women, Israel, Zionism, anti semitism, and effective activism – or just how to not let people drive you crazy. She has been hosted in the US, the UK and Israel at synagogues, Jewish community centers, conferences and private events.