Julie's Jerusalem Journal

I apologize to those of you who have been checking in for not posting in a while. I've been devoting all my writing energies to a new p...

When Benjamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister in May, 1996 I walked around with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks, if not months. ...

I'm considering cancelling my subscription to the newspaper I read so religiously every morning because I forsee lots of bad news for Is...

Now that the war seems to be over ('seems' being the operative word) we can freely continue to soul search about the results, the ca...

Today is the fourteenth day of the war in Gaza. Most bloggers around here have been posting furiously about the day-to-day events but I have...

Now that Obama and Barkat are safely esconsed in their new offices we can direct all of our political angst toward the upcoming Israeli elec...

The long-awaited election day for the mayor of Jerusalem finally arrived last Tuesday. For several years I have been volunteering for Meret...