Coexistence

What to watch in Israel: Crime drama on Jewish-Arab life and a pop culture phenomenon

TV Time: More than just drama: "Jaffa" and "The Zaguris" dive into the heart of the Jewish-Arab conflict, bringing the friction of Israeli reality to the small screen.

DECEMBER 26, 2025|ByHANNAH BROWN

Christmas in the Old City on December 25, 2025

Israel’s mixed messaging on Christmas draws controversy - analysis

The messaging shows the challenges Israel faces and also raises the question of whether it is better to use the holiday to draw contrasts with the region or to celebrate unity.

DECEMBER 25, 2025|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

VIEW OF Independence Hall, the site of the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The document promises that democratic Israel would uphold full social and political equality of all its citizens, the writer says.

Israel won't be democratic without equality for all citizens, including Palestinians - opinion

Most Palestinian citizens of Israel accept Israel being the democratic nation-state of the Jewish people but demand it should also be the state of all its citizens.

DECEMBER 18, 2025|ByGERSHON BASKIN

HEALING ON display at an Army of Healers workshop in November 2025.

Violence, silence, and the need for healing - opinion

When Jewish and Arab facilitators sit together, something subtle but essential happens.

DECEMBER 17, 2025|ByNITSAN JOY GORDON

Mimouna: Young Moroccan Jews celebrate end of Passover in global coexistence events

Meet Global Mimouna, the initiative headed by three Moroccan Jews to tell the public what it needs to know to host the perfect Mimouna at the end of Passover.

APRIL 18, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN

Yohai Cohen & Elad Levi at Global Mimouna 2021.

UAE, US, Israel launch religious coexistence and tolerance team

The three will work to advance a detailed and innovative plan for dialogue between different religions and cultures.

MARCH 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern, Emirati Helath Minister Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais and US Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya launch religious coexistence team.

How to share our Judaism with the world - opinion

Jewish trauma is a deep vortex of pain that can separate us from the world.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021ByHADAR COHEN/JTA

A general view of Jerusalem's Old City shows the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in the foreground and the Dome of the Rock, located on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in the background June 24, 2019

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Tzuzamen takes on Irina Nevzlin

AUGUST 19, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE INTERIOR of the Old City’s Yohanan ben Zakai Synagogue, built in the early 1600s. This was the first of the Four Sephardi Synagogues, which were severely damaged by the Jordanians after the 1948 War of Independence but rebuilt after the Six Day War. It continues to function as the main synagogue

In the mind of Etgar Keret: An interview on Tzuzamen

Join Tzipi Trope and Tzili Charney as they dive into the mind of famed Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret | Live - July 28 at 7:00 p.m. Israel time

AUGUST 8, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret.

Herzog urges interfaith dialogue at Haifa coexistence summit

President Isaac Herzog believes the harmony that existed before May's outbreak of violent unrest can be restored through interfaith and inter-ethnic dialogue.

AUGUST 2, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

President Isaac Herzog with participants in Haifa Summit

Jewish and Arab youth take part in joint soccer match

Jewish and Arab children will be able to meet with Paris Saint Germain player Ander Herrera as part of a coexistence program organized by the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

JULY 30, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF