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Jul 1, 2018, 9:22 AM
Ron Dermer speaks
Friday night at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem. The important diplomatic meeting with Netanyahu had wound up a few hours ago.  Trump's two envoys, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt travelled to Herzliya to spend Shabbat with US Ambassador...
Jun 24, 2018, 1:09 PM
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Democrats, Lieberman, and the political future
Illustrative: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, left, with Sen. John McCain at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, January 31, 2014. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images via JTA)
The Jewish narrative is far larger than any current enmeshment with the Republican Party
Jun 18, 2018, 3:27 PM
Maybe enough is really enough
The following are two failings that happen all the time, but this week we saw them in full force: The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and soldiers of the Duvdevan unit arrested Islam Yusuf Abu Hamid, the murderer of Duvdevan...
Jun 12, 2018, 10:31 AM
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Trump, Kim and the Jewish spirit of change
US President Donald Trump (R) poses with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
Who could imagine this week's diplomatic breakthrough? Those with a tradition that celebrates hope and change
Jun 6, 2018, 11:26 AM
Re-digging the wells
Hundreds of fire kites have been sent out from Gaza. Thousands of green acres have been burned. Such a primitive kind of terror, yet so annoying and painful. Already in the Book of Genesis, the following verse appears, about Yitzchak...
May 28, 2018, 9:33 AM
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Seeing the light unto the nations
Guatemala President Jimmy Morales speaks during the official opening ceremony of the Guatemala embassy in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
Israeli media hearkens to the world's criticism of Israel; it should do the same for the world's praise
May 22, 2018, 1:56 PM
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A night of perfect grace in Jerusalem
The Western Wall. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash 90)
If you weren't there, among those learning and worshiping till dawn on Shavuot, you might never know it happened
May 17, 2018, 2:10 PM
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To the youth of Gaza: It wasn’t always like this
Gush Katif. (Courtesy, Sivan Rahav Meir, via Facebook)
Your leaders have electricity and water in their mansions when they send you to die for their beliefs
May 9, 2018, 12:46 PM
American Jews ‘upset’ with Israel? Not the ones I met
When you read a dramatic headline, do you ever stop to think about the reality behind it? We have become accustomed to screaming headlines every few months informing us about the "rift with American Jewry" or that "American Jews...
Jan 28, 2018, 7:07 AM
Pence was all praise…which was kind of awkward
It hit me in the middle of Vice President Pence's speech. I suddenly understood. When journalists listen to a speech, they are on the lookout for the word "but." When all the greetings and compliments are dispensed with, then...
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Sivan Rahav Meir is an Israeli television and print journalist, author and radio and TV host.
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