Mati Wagner

Mati Wagner was born in New Jersey and grew up in California. He was educated at Bar-Ilan University and the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Wagner received ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in 2006. He began his journalism career two decades ago at the now-defunct Hebrew-language economic daily Telegraph, has covered economics and religion for The Jerusalem Post, has written for JTA, Religion Dispatches, Tablet and Commentary. Wagner has also provided news analyses for the BBC, Radio France, IBA News, NBC Radio and i24 News. He is currently the editor of The Jerusalem Post editorial page, writing most of the paper's daily editorials. He can be contacted at: mati.wagner@gmail.com

The Leon Blum memorial in Kibbutz Kfar Blum

Socialist sentimentality

Tamar Weissman

Books: Tribal Lands — The Twelve Tribes of Israel in Their Ancestral Territories

Independence Day ceremony

Book Review: New customs


‘A better future for Palestinians will benefit Israel’

Last week Israel denied South African Minister for Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande entry to the country.

A HOTEL STAFFER cuts a cake at the event in Ramallah on Tuesday.

Hope for justice fades as Argentina's Jews watch prosecutor's work slip beneath gov't rhetoric

In anti-Semitic rant, President Kirchner sullies late prosecutor’s decade-long search for culprits of the 1994 AMIA bombing.

Alberto Nisman

The Armenian imperative

Representatives of the community say three factors have given them hope this year: the pope’s support, the EU’s recognition of their genocide and Kim Kardashian’s visit to Jerusalem and Armenia

Pope Francis (L) embraces Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II during a mass on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian mass killings, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican

The folly of retreat

The breakdown in international order is the cumulative effect of a Barack Obama’s ‘light footprint’ foreign policy, writes Bret Stephens.

'America in Retreat' Book

Jewish world: Shifts and rifts in Israel-US ties

As progressive US Jews and Israelis drift apart, where are relations headed?

J STREET U students protest against Hillel International on the sidelines of the annual J Street conference in Washington DC earlier this week.

Terreur et conspiration à Buenos Aires

Depuis 1994, d’obscures manigances politiques et d’ahurissantes inepties ont entaché les enquêtes sur l’attentat contre le centre communautaire juif

La grande marche de Buenos Aires

Electoral strides in the Haredi and Arab sectors come at a cost, internal division and suspicion

The haredim are expected to be in the coalition and Arabs have increased their electoral strength, but will these successes help or hinder their integration?

Aryeh Deri

Hope and frustration abound with historic election results in Arab community

The Joint List will be the third largest faction in the Knesset, bringing with it formidable political power.

Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23

Fear and conspiracy in Buenos Aires

Since 1994 corruption, murky politics and mind-numbing ineptitude have marred investigations of the bombing of the Jewish community center.

Cristina de Fernandez Kirchner stands with members of her government on February 26.

Will Nisman row hurt Israel-Argentina relations?

The US and Israel sharply criticized Argentina at the time.

Alberto Nisman