Jerusalem post magazine

Miracle at Soroka: How a frontline hospital weathered October 7, survived Iran war

From one war to the next, Soroka has learned to work smarter and create a level of response to meet the needs of their patients. 

SMOKE RISES from Soroka Medical Center on June 19, after an Iranian ballistic missile packed with over 400 kilos of explosives slammed into the Northern Surgical Building, destroying two floors.
A RECENT Pew study found that more than 50% of employees don’t want to return to office life.

With the end of the pandemic, comes the return of choice - opinion

LIFE IN the Jewish state: Thrills and chills.

The pain and the pride in remembrance days for Holocaust, fallen soldiers

Sayeret Shaked Park

Make Remembrance Day meaningful by visiting these memorial locations


Strict scrutiny

Jane Sherron De Hart explores how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s upbringing inspired her commitment to social justice.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1993 – holding a sign made by her grandson.

Pleading for change

Tal Keinan offers an impassioned but underwhelming treatise on Judaism today.

Jewish star

PARASHAT TOLDOT: Isaac – The praying patriarch

Every patriarch and matriarch had a unique story and way of coping with their infertility.

‘BY READING this carefully and sensitively, the reader finds the compassionate and gentle image of Isaac and grasps the reason God answers his prayer: “…and the Lord accepted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”’

WATER FROM THE WELL: These are the generations

Existential angst as we raise children who make different choices than our own –often leading to rupture, estrangement and alienation –leads many parents to question the truth of their own existence.

BIRTH OF Esau and Jacob as an example of twins’ fate against the arguments of astrology, by François Maitre, 1475-1480, detail from miniature at the Museum Meermanno Westreenianum, The Hague.

Different types of art

From Highland Park, New Jersey to Jerusalem.

YUDIT SIDIKMAN, 54 FROM: HIGHLAND PARK, NEW JERSEY, TO JERUSALEM, 1984

This week in Jerusalem: Life after Elections

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

Oud Festival