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Voices from the Arab press: Yemen’s fight to retake Sana'a mirrors Syria’s liberation of Damascus

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

Houthi supporters rally in solidarity with the movement, in Sana’a, Yemen, Oct. 9.
There are many roads that lead home.

From Terah to today: The many roads that lead Jews home

Food is prepared at Chentro Kosher in Hadera.

Chentro Kosher: New Hadera joint offers a fresh take on the classic burger - review

MENACHEM BEGIN addresses the Knesset, 1974.

'The Prime Ministers': New book covers Begin, the ‘Altalena,’ and the October 27 election - review


Parashat Ki Tavo: The power of joy

Parashat Ki Tavo teaches that joy is not a luxury but a religious obligation, revealed through gratitude, generosity and serving God with a sincere and joyful heart.

REJOICING UPON the release of Hamas hostage Bar Kupershtein, Nov. 2, 2025.

After months apart on reserve duty, married Israeli couples face a new challenge at home

A 2024 study, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, of couples during the current war found that wartime stress sharply reduces sexual well-being and emotional closeness.

 An IDF reservist kisses his child before boarding the bus, in Jerusalem, May 2025.

'Kat World:' Artist Risa Brooke Oze turns wartime life in Israel into whiskered, cat-themed satire

Oze’s signature style filters big, uncomfortable themes through a distinctly feminine lens – bright, playful, and unmistakably her own.

RISA BROOKE OZE at ‘Kat World.’ With ‘Meow York Times Mourns the Demise of Khatmeini’ illustrating propaganda’s strange glamour.

'My Other Half': Sex, drugs, rock & roll, philosophy, and cynicism - book review

In My Other Half, the hero, Jake, eventually meets an unexpected fate in Jerusalem. Until then, he embarks on a hilarious series of decadent misadventures, some of which appear below.

David Isaacson’s 'My Other Half.'

Living better for longer: Israeli fitness experts on how to stay strong and healthy as you age

Longevity, which refers not only to the number of years a person lives but also to the number of years they stay healthy and active, is an increasingly important and popular topic today. 

Physical Fitness.

'Jerusalem of the Balkans': Exploring Thessaloniki's lost Jewish history - opinion

I had long wanted to visit the city where the port once closed on Shabbat, and where Jews were both longshoremen and leaders in commercial development.

 Thessaloniki, Greece

As I turn 80, I hope my life is and continues to be a journey that inspires others - opinion

Will I ever be religious? I do not know. But, as Baruch ben Michael said in his Ethics, “All things perfect are as difficult as they are rare.”

RABBI ABRAHAM Joshua Heschel presents the Judaism and World Peace Award to Martin Luther King Jr., 1965.

'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review

An American octogenarian oleh, born in a DP camp in Italy, offers his Holocaust survivor parents’ tales to the world.

BIELSKI partisans and families. Lazar Engles stands third from the left.

'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review

The French have a saying: “Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner” (to understand all is to forgive all). Marc David Baer's work may help many on that journey.

ABRAHAM’S GATE, ‘Sha’ar Avraham’ in Hebrew and ‘Bab Ibrahim’ in Arabic, preserved in Tel Dan, is around 4,000 years old.

The Sbarro bomber’s saga: Ahlam Tamimi was released from Israel, US failed to bring her to justice

On the official site Congress.gov, the following appears: “The United States requested Tamimi’s extradition in 2017, but Jordan’s Court of Cassation ruled that the extradition treaty was invalid.”

Alham Tamimi.