Israel new year

Rosh Hashanah: How memory can be a double-edged sword - opinion

Memory is central to Rosh Hashanah but can be a double-edged sword.

A SUPERMARKET in Jerusalem does a brisk business last week as shoppers stock up for the New Year holiday. Rosh Hashanah is not just a time to look back; it’s a time to look forward, the writer notes.
A RALLY for the release of hostages held in Gaza takes place outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Even the wish that all the hostages will soon be brought back home is not really an issue on which we are fully united, the writer observes.

Rosh Hashanah: Wishing for peace, better education in the new year - opinion

 Anti-missile system fires interception missiles as missiles fired from Iran, as seen in the West Bank on October 1, 2024

With a new year, comes a regional war for Israel - analysis

Israelis visit Hostage Sqaure in Tel Aviv. December 7, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90

Facing 2024, together - editorial


New Year's wishes from China to 'Post' readers: Shana tova u'metuka!

China Radio International's Hebrew language service released a video Monday sending New Year's greetings to The Jerusalem Post's readers worldwide.

Screenshot from Shana tova from China to The Jerusalem Post

Seeing fully in the New Year

Much work remains to be done, but much good should be recognized, too.

A young man plays the shofar during the Nashuva Spiritual Community Jewish New Year celebration

What were Israel's most popular baby names of 5778?

The annual statistics from the Population and Immigration Authority found a repeat winner.

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The year that wasn’t: The top 10 stories of 5777 that didn’t happen

5777 was the year that wasn’t. So much could have happened, was speculated about, worried about, kvetched about, but… didn’t.

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Report: 88% of Israelis were satisfied with their lives in the past year

According to the report, the Israeli population continues to increase in all sectors.

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UH to help out W. Bank and northern border residents as MDA reduces emergency services

"This situation may result in the harming of residents of these areas and may even cost lives. As a volunteer organization that is dedicated to saving lives, we cannot sit idly by."

MDA MEDICS evacuate a Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem after a stabbing in October

Fireworks dazzle from Sydney to Pyongyang as 2017 begins in the East

Iraqi displaced persons also marking a new year filled with uncertainty.

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as Australia's largest city ushers in the New Year

New Year’s Eve vs. Rosh Hashana: Can Jews celebrate both?

“The Gregorian calendar carries more of a Christian or Roman tradition and so for Jews it simply does not contain the same spiritual significance,” he added.

People walk along a street decorated with festive illumination lights, part of the New Year and Christmas holidays celebration, in central Moscow, Russia, December 21, 2015.

Know Comment: A crystal ball on 2017

Obama will continue to prick at Israel, Trump will reaffirm the Bush letter, Putin may peel away from Iran and Netanyahu will prevail.

WORKERS PREPARE the New Year’s Eve numerals above a Toshiba sign in Times Square in Manhattan.

Happy but skeptical: How Israelis are feeling as the country turns 68

Most Israelis are proud to be citizens, however the public give a failing grade to politicians, and are more concerned about the economy than security threats.

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