On Tuesday, August 11, after 22 years without an execution in Lebanon, its parliament voted to abolish the death penalty, ...

Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli has made a habit of providing similar unsolicited endorsements in foreign elections, including Donald Trump in 2024, Jordan Bardella (National Rally candidate for ...

Every election year, somebody tells us that the Jewish vote could decide the election. I have usually been skeptical. American Jews have a tendency, perhaps an understandable one, to overestimate our ...

The IDF called the activity “illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable.” To describe this simply as another failure to enforce the law against extremist settlers is to isolate one part of a larger ...

Unfortunately for Tel Aviv, Geddes’ plan only extended to the north to the Yarkon river, and virtually all of the major expansion being built today is beyond the central city limits. Looking north of ...

Before Abraham discovers God, before Moses, before Egypt, before Sinai and the Ten Commandments, Rashi anticipates a moment when the Jewish people will stand accused before the world of having stolen ...

The search for Yehuda Katz, missing since the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub, reflects Israel’s enduring commitment to its missing soldiers—and a deeply Jewish obligation never ...

Who have I hurt? Whose feelings have I ignored? Where have I spoken too quickly, judged too harshly, or failed to show kindness? Judaism asks something extraordinary of us. Before we ask G-d for ...

Who am I and why do I want to write a blog now? For starters, I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember, but always for myself, for school, or for work. Since October 7 hit us hard, I have ...

On August 17, 2026, a Moscow court sentenced Romas Liutkus, a Lithuanian citizen, to seven years in prison in absentia, and ...

Yevhen Konovalets has now returned to Ukraine, but his reburial should not close the argument about him. For Israelis, it should open a more precise one — beginning with Ludwik Rosenberg beside him, ...

The prosecutor has options. Article 282 covers moharebeh, enmity against God, and offers death, crucifixion, amputation of the right hand and left foot, or internal exile. Crucifixion remains written ...