Today, besides Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ayatollah Khamenei, we are hated by U.N. officials and innumerable college faculty, students, commentators, journalists, and government officials around the world.

The war we have been waging to defend our people and our land has made the words of the Bible come alive. God granted this land to His people, intending it to be a stage for moral greatness, a ...

The worst mistake Israel made before October 7th wasn’t a failure of intelligence; it was a failure of imagination. This has been one of the most painful realizations as findings from probes ...

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Purim, we’re told, will be with us even after all other post-biblical holidays are no longer celebrated. And there’s a solid reason for that. Judaism is about making distinctions. Distinctions ...

Recently, a British journalist asked me whether Israel’s growing isolation in the wake of October 7 was inherently “Jewish.” In her view, Israel was retreating from the world – turning ...

If there is a message for this Purim, for this moment in history, it is this: the story of the Jewish people is not just a story of survival.

In the face of such evil – to attack the weak and those free of sin without reason and with baseless cruelty, which reminds us of the unlimited Nazi-Hamas hatred – there is only one possible ...

A member of the Sephardi haredi Orthodox Shas party’s rabbinical council called the Modern Orthodox community Amalek, referring to the archenemy of the Jewish people. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A ...

Parashat Tetzaveh provides us with complete instructions for fashioning the garments of the Kohen Gadol, a challenge successfully taken up by the Temple Institute. This coming Shabbat we read ...

The Torah's juxtaposition of Amalek (seeking destruction) and Yitro (offering wisdom) teaches us that protection and engagement aren't mutually exclusive. People gather to watch the October 7 ...