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Jerusalem Post's talented team of journalists provides insight into their work presented in the opinion section. This section highlights the beliefs and values that experienced writers who are witnessing the Middle East turmoil unfold. Their first hand encounters with world leaders have shaped their opinions and world views to be shared on this page.

 Group people have a dinner Christmas party at home.

What Christmas celebrations can teach Jews about observing Hanukkah

 IDF SOLDIERS operate in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, last month. When foreign forces attempt to curtail Jewish sovereignty on the historic homeland of the Jewish people, the Jews must fight back – even violently – to achieve their independence, the writer asserts.

Jews must fight back to achieve independence according to Jewish values

 Takiat Ibrahim soup kitchen, Hebron, on the West Bank, April 4, 2023.

VAT increase will mean many in Israel go hungry

By Rabbi Simcha Krakowski
 Hanukkah family

Eight Hanukkah wishes for the New Year: Strength, resilience, and light will triumph over darkness

 Canadian national flag isolated on broken cracked wall background

Something is rotten in Canada as antisemitism skyrockets

 PEOPLE GATHER during a celebration called by HTS at Umayyad Square in Damascus last Friday.

Is there hope for a democratic future for Syria?

 THE TEACHER outside her classroom: ‘Lo and behold, upon arrival at my new classroom, I learned that the space also doubles as the building’s bomb shelter,’ she writes.

Teaching in a bomb shelter: Life, learning, and belonging in Israel

By HOLLY CIN
 US SENATE MAJORITY LEADER Chuck Schumer lights a hanukkiah with Rabbi Levi Shemtov, as House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Speaker Mike Johnson watch at a ceremony marking Hanukkah at the Capitol last week.

Candles a symbol of hope in the darkness

 THEN-LIKUD MK Michael Eitan addresses the Knesset plenum, 2008. The writer notes that the last effort to reach a complete constitution in Israel was made during the term of the 16th Knesset in 2003-06, when the late Eitan was chair of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee.

To get governance back on track, Netanyahu must go

 THE ANNUAL Zichron Menachem Braid of Power campaign begins tomorrow, encouraging hair donations for women with cancer.

People contribute more during wartime

By MICHAL ITZIK
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz confer in the Knesset plenum last week. It’s time to stop criticizing Netanyahu; it’s tiring and ridiculous to hear people saying that he’s only interested in his own political survival, the writer argues.

Leading us to a historic victory: A defense of Benjamin Netanyahu

By DANIEL M ROSEN
 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken meets with UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen in Aqaba earlier this month. The US has no choice but to get involved because leaving the new Syrian regime entirely to its own devices could backfire and lead to adverse consequences, says the writer.

A non-interventionist approach in Syria is extremely dangerous

Illustrative image of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

Has Julani become a pragmatic politician after being a jihadist leader?

By Atar Porat
 Relations between Israel and Ireland.

Ireland's badge of dishonor in its phony war with Israel

By ALAN SHATTER
Turkish Kurds watch smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bombing Islamic State fighters wh

Israel should not gamble on the Kurds, our strategy should be based in reality

By Atar Porat
IRELAND’S ‘TAOISEACH’ (Prime Minister) Simon Harris speaks to the media during Ireland’s general election, in Greystones, Ireland last month.

Israel’s Irish embassy closure: ‘Short-term gestures, long-term losses’

 People gather at the scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21, 2024.

Threat of Iran's proxies isn't gone, Israeli gov't cannot lose focus

PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG receives a new Hebrew translation of the Quran from Emir Muhammad Sharif Odeh.

Grapevine December 22, 2024: 100 plus and still counting

THEN-EDUCATION MINISTER Yuli Tamir attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, 2008.

Time to rebuild the economy, education, and emotional health of Israel's citizens

FIFTH-GRADE STUDENTS celebrate Hanukkah. While the Hanukkah miracle was an unambiguous victory of good over evil, it is rare to find such clear distinctions in contemporary society, says the writer.

Teaching complexity and nuance: Jewish education is not just black and white

By JEREMY BRUCE
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Creatively solving the economic crisis: Supporting small businesses for a stronger future

By VARDIT SHTERENBACH
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