Sam Sokol

During the course of reporting on contemporary European antisemitism for the Jerusalem Post, I became interested in the issue of memory policy, how nations c...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) “What do you think of Jim Acosta?” Shlomo asked me several weeks ago as we stood outside the synagogue chatting during Friday eve...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) Built in the 1990s in part to ease crowding in haredi Orthodox neighborhoods elsewhere in Israel, Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet is both ...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) “Yosef! Yosef!” wailed Rabbi Eliyahu Meirav, calling out the name of his stepson lying covered in a shroud on the marble slab bef...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) Like citizens in democracies around the world, Israelis are losing trust in their state institutions. In a recent poll by the Isr...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) Four years ago, on the eve of the Israeli military’s Gaza operation known as Protective Edge, a private developer created the Red...

(THE FORWARD) “We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Be...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) Dani Ben David fiddles with his radio, switching between it and his cellphone as he drives through the Beeri Forest, a nature res...

(THE JERUSALEM POST) The first sirens sounded while I was standing next to the sliding glass doors of my apartment’s balcony, overlooking the valley separati...

(THE FORWARD) The atmosphere was deceptively quiet in the small moshav of Netiv HaAsara, only four hundred meters north of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday afterno...

(JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY) For the first time, Israel announced that Jewish immigrants to Israel were outnumbered by non-Jewish immigrants. The headlines mi...

(THE JERUSALEM POST) Our car decelerated and pulled over to the side of the highway after passing the final checkpoint on the road leaving Mariupol. Walking ...