Jewish history

For peace, Palestinians must accept Israel as a sovereign Jewish state - opinion

It is time the world recognizes that Palestinian leadership has shown greater interest in dissolving an Israeli state than in establishing a viable one of its own.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall; Illustrative.
Visitors look at the Hall of Names, a repository for the names of millions of Holocaust victims at the Yad Vashem memorial center in Jerusalem on January 20, 2020.

How to uncover your family's Holocaust history when the stories were never told

From Yad Vashem to the Arolsen Archives, experts explain how descendants of Holocaust survivors can reconstruct their family histories when no one is left to tell their stories.

|ByNINA POGREBNAYA
Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar Party, speaks to the Jerusalem Post ahead of elections in September 2026.

Burning the storehouses: The change bloc's suicidal crusade against Netanyahu - opinion

History stands as a severe, unyielding warning of what happens when internal factions allow raw hatred to dictate their actions.

|ByJONATHAN POLLARD
Casey Babb's 'The Moral Case for Zionism' book cover.PremiumPremium

Zionism isn’t just for Jews: Casey Babb’s moral case for all people - review

Casey Babb makes the case for Zionism as a moral ideal rooted in Jewish history, identity, and self-determination

|ByNEVILLE TELLER

Jews need new story of Hanukkah or risk losing next Jewish generation to disillusionment - opinion

It is time for a new Hanukkah, kind and compassionate, turning narrow nationalism into a universalist pursuit of the world to come promised by our prophets.

DECEMBER 10, 2025ByHERBERT LEVINE/JTA
An illustrative image of Hanukkah candles lit.

The struggle to perceive miracles in real time links Hanukkah’s origins to recent events - opinion

From the Maccabees to modern Israel, people miss miracles as they occur and grasp them only later.

DECEMBER 7, 2025ByURI PILICHOWSKI
The site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah last year, in Beirut’s southern suburbs: Today’s Jews can’t perceive the miraculous nature of the events of the last two years, the writer maintains.

Greek textbooks discuss Judaism, Holocaust in detail, but fall short on antisemitism

Greek textbooks give limited attention to local Jewish history and contributions to Greek society. Even though they include Jewish history and misfortunes, the books leave antisemitism behind.

DECEMBER 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A slogan reading "Outside the Jewish Snakes" is written outside a Jewish synagoue in the central Greek town of Trikala, some 300 kilometers north of Athens, on December 31, 2019

Zionism beyond Europe: Restoring the Mizrahi narrative in Jewish education - opinion

Theodor Herzl stood on the shoulders of these pioneers, and his ideas for a Jewish state can be traced directly to them.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025ByASHLEY PERRY
Jewish girls at a school performance in Benghazi, Lybia.

AI opens vast trove of medieval Jewish records from the Cairo Geniza

The Cairo Geniza, the biggest collection of medieval Jewish documents in the world, has been the object of countless hours of study by scholars for more than a century.

NOVEMBER 26, 2025ByREUTERS
A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analysing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew manuscripts using Machine Learning, including manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza, holds up a 12th century fragment of a Yom Kippur liturgy in Jerusalem November 24, 2025.

This month in Jewish history: Operation Moses, Hanukkah, and Spinoza

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

NOVEMBER 22, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS upon their arrival at an absorption center in Ashkelon, 1984.

Haaretz’s claims on brit milah: Separating fact from misconception - opinion

That this family continues to have a strong connection to our nation, history, and customs speaks to how brit milah – unchanged itself across millennia – continues to preserve the Jewish people.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025ByHAYIM LEITER
THE WRITER, second from left, performs a circumcision in the presence of four generations, great-grandfather to newborn. Just as much as the Jewish people have continuously kept the commandment of circumcision, the practice has preserved our identity, he asserts.

Beyond the beaches and medieval walls: Discovering Jewish Rhodes

From airport signs, restaurant menus on buzzing streets, and business cards in Hebrew, an Israeli visitor can almost feel at home in Rhodes.

OCTOBER 25, 2025ByGIL LEWINSKY
KAHAL SHALOM Synagogue.

Mermaids and a talking donkey: A treasure trove of ‘midrashic’ interpretations - review

Zev T. Gershon's '100 Wonders in the World of Torah' includes entries of little-known stories and oddities.

OCTOBER 5, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM
‘BALAAM AND The Angel,’ 1493 woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle.

The fascinating history of Jews in Montenegro

This small Adriatic nation, nestled between the mountains and the sea, with barely 600,000 citizens, has a rich Jewish history.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2025ByMICHAEL FREUND
TODAY, THE Jewish community in Montenegro is small but vibrant.