A Forum for the Clarification of Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Rabbi Benzion Firer (1914-1988) published a responsum ...

The UN climate panel’s own assessment puts the likely warming from a doubling of carbon dioxide somewhere between 2.5 and 4 ...

Because of this strong historical meaning, using the word apartheid in other contexts should be done with great care and ...

Beginning with the Shabbat following Shiva Asar B’Tamuz, the haftarot shift away from reflecting the themes of their ...

From the blog of Yair Marton at The Times of Israel ...

History did not change on the day Israel’s Cabinet voted to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Politics did. The Armenian ...

For years, the conventional wisdom within the halls of power in Jerusalem has been that the traditional bipartisan support ...

Who fought? Who won? To whom does victory belong? These are not merely questions of diplomatic etiquette. In Pierre ...

If 2020 required us to constantly wear physical masks to protect ourselves from our environment, the aftermath of October 7 ...

After October 7, much of the discussion about universities centered on their official statements. People wanted to know who ...

We must press our allies for rigorous, transparent mechanisms that prevent sanctions relief from financing the IRGC’s ...

This week, America turns 250. In the Jewish tradition, we have a word for what this moment calls for: hakarat hatov.