Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman / JNS.org
In ‘iTrek,’ Israeli Start-Up Scene Is Future Business Leaders’ Training Ground
JNS.org - Ever since Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s 2009 book, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, came out, the Israeli innovation scene has...
Is an Election Brewing in Israel?
JNS.org - At the annual Herzliya Conference in Israel last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a seemingly unprecedented barrage of attacks from a number of...
Understanding the ‘Human Evolution’ of a Hamas Terror Leader’s Son
JNS.org - Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef and author of a 2011 New York Times bestseller memoir, recently re-emerged in news headlines...
Can ‘Open Source Jihad’ Be Stopped? Israeli Conference Searches for Solutions
JNS.org - It was Oct. 27, 2015, shortly after 10 am. Two terrorists from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber boarded an Egged bus in the...
With Genesis Prize, Violinist Itzhak Perlman Eyes a More Inclusive World
JNS.org - In his book, To Heal a Fractured World, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks recalls how renowned Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue Itzhak Perlman came onto the...
Jewish Author’s ‘Messy’ Draft Transforms Into Rock Star Novel on Amazon
JNS.org - “Writing is a messy process,” says author Elizabeth Poliner. “People who don’t write fiction would be surprised to see what early drafts could look...
At Israeli Confab, Searching for ‘Silver-Bullet Solutions’ to Europe’s Migrant Crisis
JNS.org - The influx of migrants and refugees into Europe has presented that continent’s leaders and policymakers with some of their greatest current challenges. Those challenges...
6 Jerusalem Gems That Likely Won’t Appear on Your Tour Guide’s Itinerary
JNS.org - You’ve traveled to Israel one, two, or three times. You’ve seen the Kotel (Western Wall), taken a tour of the City of David, and...
‘Mekonen’ Puts a Face on the Stories of the IDF and Ethiopian Jewry
JNS.org - Squeals of laughter and high-spirited traditional Ethiopian dancing, coupled with deep and mournful cries of loss and pain. The piercing sound of bullets whizzing...
Before Jerusalem’s Reunification, There Were Defiant Carvings on a Prison Wall
JNS.org - In late fall 1947, Shmuel Matza, then a 20-year-old member of the Etzel (also known as Irgun) Jewish underground paramilitary organization, was detained in...
Sykes-Picot at 100: Mideast Chaos Highlights the Perils of Drawing Borders
JNS.org - One-hundred years ago this month, British colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Marie Denis Georges-Picot divided the Middle East loosely...
Cuban-Jewish Women ‘Lit Up Their Souls’ in Israel
JNS.org - Dr. Sara Bedoya was raised in a small Cuban town. She was a member of the town’s only Jewish family. Though she knew of...
Does Poverty Motivate Palestinian Terror? Examining Perception and Reality
JNS.org - Israel has endured terrorism for decades — since the state’s establishment. But ever since 9/11 and subsequent major terrorist attacks worldwide, more countries are starting...
Experts Say North Korea Is an Overlooked Player in the Mideast Threat Landscape
JNS.org - North Korea has provided the technology or weapons for Hamas’s cross-border attack tunnels from Gaza to Israel, Hezbollah’s Scud-D missile stockpile in Lebanon, and...
