Greer Fay Cashman

Greer Fay Cashman is a veteran Australian born journalist whose by-line has appeared in The Jerusalem Post for some 45 years. She has written on a wide variety of subjects and says she has been educated by her profession.

  PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR to Israel, Ezra Cohen, presents his credentials to President Isaac Herzog in this file photo.

Grapevine, June 15, 2025: A new era?

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a swearing in ceremony for new judges in the Rabbinical Court, held at the President's residence in Jerusalem on June 10, 2025.

Newly elected Rabbinical Court judges inaugurated at President’s Residence

 URI BEN-ARI teaches a lesson on Israeli history in an ImagineBox classroom.

Grapevine, June 8, 2025: Havens for strange bedfellows


Grapevine: Ahad Ha’am is back

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Happy anniversary (illustrative).

Grapevine, June 6, 2025: A man and his legacy

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ELI AMIR receives his Life Achievement citation from President Isaac Herzog at the Yitzhak Navon Legacy Awards  ceremony held at the President’s Residence by the Culture and Sport Ministry.

Grapevine, June 4, 2025: A serial revolutionary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PASTOR GREG LAURIE addresses attendees at the dedication of an armored ambulance at the Tower of David Museum

Huckabee wants to remove his yellow pin, because it would mean all the hostages came home - opinion

The US ambassador to Israel also attended the dedication of an ambulance donated by Evangelicals.

 US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.

Grapevine, June 1, 2025: Where’s Annie?

The movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Babies born amid Israel's next baby boom.

Grapevine: True shofar blower

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Holding the Torah that was carried by IDF chief rabbi Shlomo Goren in the 1967 Six Day War, during a ceremony with 75 Torah scrolls from around the world in memory of the soldiers killed in the 2014 Operation Protective Edge and in Israel’s wars, at the Western Wall, 2015.

Grapevine, May 30, 2025: Lives in limbo

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 DEMOCRATS PARTY chairman Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset this week.

Jerusalem Unity Prize awarded in memory of three kidnapped, murdered teens

The three boys, Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer, and Naftali Frankel, were hitchhiking and entered a car whose passengers resembled Orthodox Jews. But in fact, they were Palestinian terrorists.

Gilad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah

Grapevine, May 25, 2025: Resilience in the face of racism

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

L-R) DANNA AZRIELI, Yeshayahu Menat, and Galit Gal

What preserves the memory of the Holocaust among Jews is hope, and looking to the future

The point was made by several speakers that there cannot be memory without knowledge, and that lack of knowledge leads to difficulties in countering Holocaust denial and distortion.

 Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.