The Torah is poetically called a shira, a song. In the context of the mitzva to write a Sefer Torah, the word shira refers to ...

Having previously, unsuccessfully attempted to arrest Netanyahu for bogus “genocide” crimes and more recently encouraging ...

Klemperer was deeply affected by the plight of Jews during the Holocaust and was supportive of the State of Israel and Jewish cultural institutions. His decision to conduct the Israel Philharmonic ...

(July 27, 2026 / JNS) Both Israel and Bahrain are small nations in the Middle East that pursue peace and coexistence between Jews and Muslims, President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday, relating a recent ...

A Brookings Institute Report claims that the pandemic has made it extremely difficult to fight against ISIS, as the high cost of fighting against the pandemic and fixing local economies will likely ...

The moment the spies confronted the land, they confronted themselves. That was the point at which the real fear began. The land did not threaten them. Its inhabitants did not threaten them. What ...

The rapid rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is profoundly troubling for American Jews. Before 2016, the organization had roughly 6,000 members; today it claims well over 100,000 – and is ...

Rabbi Klein responds: Fascinating! That seems to reflect what I wrote – how the names Frida and Freyda are often conflated. And you tied it in to Shlomit, even though in my article I connected it to ...

Since the mid-19 th century, expositions and fairs have generated trade and relations between nations and, as early as 1898, an “International Scientific, Industrial and Philanthropic Fair” was ...

The parsha ends not with resolution but with presence. The offerings of the Nesiim arrive day after day, each one identical in form, yet carried by a different heart. The Torah repeats every detail as ...

Assessments derived from commercial satellite imagery that were conducted independently by David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst ...

A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...