by Lela Gilbert | Aug 30, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Muslims and Muslim Majority States
In the scorching heat of a troubled Jerusalem summer, the government of Israel announced that it intends to shut down Qatar-based Al Jazeera News Service. Shuttering a large and well-known news outlet in a democratic nation is not to be taken lightly. This is...
by Lela Gilbert | Jul 6, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State
In recent days – both in Israel and in Jewish communities in North America – a burning debate has ignited amongst political and religious leaders and has flared up in the media. This argument focuses on Jerusalem’s Western Wall: Who can worship there? Where and how...
by Lela Gilbert | Jun 13, 2017 | American Foreign Policy, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State
The United States Embassy to Israel has been located in Tel Aviv since the 1940s. But now, in 2017, the address of the embassy has become the center of a contentious political discussion, both in and around Israel. Why? Well, as the saying goes, it’s complicated. But...
by Lela Gilbert | May 31, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Muslims and Muslim Majority States
The following column first appeared in Fox News Opinion on FoxNews.com, the website of the Fox News Channel. Used with permission. The first thing I read on Friday morning was that 28 Egyptians in the Sinai had been murdered by terrorists, with more than 20 others...
by Lela Gilbert | Mar 22, 2017 | Christians and Minority Rights, Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jews and the Jewish State
When I first set foot in Jerusalem in August 2006 – arriving in the country in the midst of the second Lebanon War – one of the earliest discoveries I made was that truth is sometimes hard to identify in the not-always-holy Holy Land. I also found out that truth isn’t...
by Lela Gilbert | Mar 3, 2017 | Current Events, Jerusalem Notebook, Jews and the Jewish State, Perspectives
From the lips of a little child – an 8-year-old girl from El Arish, Egypt – comes a heartbreaking message. Her words speak volumes about the violent attacks on Christians that are taking place today in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “I am very sad,” she explained in words...
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