Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East. This article originally appeared on the Gatestone Institute website (gatestoneinstitute.org).

Rabbi David Fohrman is the dean of Aleph Beta Academy. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, and was a lead writer and editor for ArtScroll's Talmud translation project. Aleph Beta creates videos ...

Levi Eshkol (1895-1969), born Levi Shkolnik in the small Ukrainian town of Oratov, emerged from humble beginnings to become one of Israel’s most consequential, yet least celebrated, leaders. His early ...

American Jewry in the early days of the United States was a small community, numbering only a few synagogues. All of them followed the Spanish and Portuguese minhag and used Sephardic prayerbooks. The ...

Abortion is complex on many levels – halachically, hashkafically, emotionally, and politically. For the American Jewish community, the issue is fraught because of the secular laws and politics ...

Signs like this always have a way of attracting children, so it was no surprise when a young boy walked into the shop. “How much are you selling the puppies for?” “Anywhere from 15 to 30 dollars, ...

In the financial world, few things offer more comfort than receiving a large sum of cash. The challenge is how to handle a windfall responsibly based on the markets, economic environment, and personal ...

Walter Disney (1901-66), a worldwide cultural icon, was an animator, film producer, and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the American animation industry. His films, which are beloved worldwide, ...

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 ...

Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation ...

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 ...