American and Israeli aircraft strike Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Pickaxe Mountain is destroyed or rendered ...

In Parshas Lech Lecha, we encounter a narrative that feels startlingly familiar when we turn the page to Parshas Vayeira. In ...

Thirty-one years ago, on a Saturday night in Tel Aviv, a Jewish Israeli shot Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the end of a ...

We should not kid ourselves: replacing Benjamin Netanyahu will not, by itself, repair Israel’s standing in the world.

Israel is not merely the land where the Jewish people live. It is the Holy Land — calling us to live up to its holiness. May ...

The opening of Lech Lecha introduces Abraham, whose life would transform the religious imagination of the world. God calls ...

Reading the story slowly, I notice that shame begins to take root long before the fruit, inside one small sentence. The ...

Five years after making Aliyah, I’m on a world tour. My family has financed the flights, G-D appears to be handling the ...

He would rather the Jews go back to the time when they were oppressed, discriminated against and killed. Blaming “Europeans” ...

This Shabbat we read Parashat Lech Lecha. It opens with the call to Abram to leave his land, his family, and his father’s ...

Dedicated l’ilui nishmat Zev (Will) Shakin, z”l, who loved Israel and lived v’ahavta l’reacha kamocha. May his memory be a ...

From the blog of Aharon Ariel Lavi at The Times of Israel ...