You can provide historical documents, archaeological evidence, legal arguments, and eyewitness testimonies. You can explain ...

Each maqam sets a specific mood for the prayer environment, subtly echoing the central theme of the weekly Torah portion. On ...

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

Trump wants to be remembered as a peacemaker. He wants to be regarded as Israel’s greatest friend. He wants the accolades, ...

Abraham goes through a similar transformation. Abram becomes Abraham, and the Torah explains the new name itself: “Av Hamon ...

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.

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

He is not like the later prophets, people who spent their life confronting kings, wrestling with their contemporaries and ...

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

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

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