Editor's note: This commentary is part of a new Point-Counterpoint series in the Light. Read Galit Lev Harir's counterpoint commentary here.Many in the American Jewish community as well as in the Israeli Jewish community were encouraged and even delighted...

Editor's note: This commentary is part of a new Point-Counterpoint series in the Light. Read Robert Gerchen's counterpoint commentary here.On May 14, President Donald Trump officially moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv....

Israel’s passage of the nation-state law brought another round of barrages across the Atlantic underlining the growing alienation of the world’s two largest Jewish communities. The issues are increasingly familiar: American pluralism versus Jewish...

August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when  time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...

Henry Berger’s Aug. 1 commentary (“Israel has evolved from democracy to theocracy”) demonstrates a lack of understanding and knowledge of the Israeli political system and current issues. Berger attacks the new “basic law” as giving Jews exclusive...

We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...

TEL AVIV — Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I was proud to join tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday night in a peaceful, unifying protest led by...

I was not quite 11 years old May 14, 1948, when the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was read by David Ben-Gurion on the eve of Shabbat and rebroadcast the following night on my great aunt’s shortwave radio. We had just finished...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Jerusalem Post defended its decision to stop using the work of cartoonist Avi Katz after he depicted a group of Israeli lawmakers as pigs.An editorial Tuesday said Katz had “blatantly crossed” the Post’s ethical and editorial...