The first conversational prompt was one that made me nostalgic for the Sedarim we used to share with our cousins before they made aliyah: “What do you need to be in place to enjoy the Seder? What ...

But Hashem’s hand is hidden in other contexts as well. I would like to present two. Ashrei is a very important prayer, and the most important pasuk in it is: “Poseiach es yadecha (You) open Your hand ...

Sivan Rahav-Meir is a primetime news anchor with weekly broadcasts on television and radio. Her “Daily Thought” has a huge following on social media, with hundreds of thousands of followers, ...

Avi Goldstein writes frequently about religion and about politics. He loves learning Torah, and he plays guitar in a garage band. He and his wife, Dawn, live in Far Rockaway, NY.

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 ...

This week, I had the singular privilege of brokering the sale of a remarkable collection of documents – an assemblage that offers not only fascinating content but also extraordinary historic ...

The Mishna (Sanhedrin 9:1) states that a murderer receives his death penalty via sayif (execution via sword, one of the four methods that a Jewish court would carry ...

Dafna Filshteiner, 12, holds a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab she found during a family hike. A 12-year-old girl hiking with her family stumbled upon a 3,500-year-old Egyptian amulet, the Israel ...

UK police arrested five men in northern England last Tuesday in two separate operations. The arrests took place in London, Swindon, and the Greater Manchester area in connection with “a suspected plot ...

Abu Muhammed al-Julani (Ahmed al-Shara'a), Syria's president. The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist army, with ...

Rabbi Akiva has been on my mind lately for several reasons. On that last point, I received a question recently from a friend who also turned 40 and needed some direction. The e-mail said: “I just ...

“Emergency Golem” (2024) by Maxwell Bauman. Construction, Lego Blocks; 8 x 8 x 3. Artists on Antisemitism, currently running at 81 Leonard Gallery in Manhattan, is a courageous artistic proclamation ...