Over three hundred people were killed in this massacre and many more were wounded. As a Jew and a human being, my first gut reaction is of great pain and concern for the incredible human suffering in ...
Many synagogues in the American Midwest have continued to close or merge since the 1990s, as Jewish communities in the Rust ...
Even if weapons were turned over, verification would be nearly impossible. Tunnel networks, hidden caches, and informal militias make monitoring unreliable. Israeli threats to disarm Hamas by force ...
Avraham was our progenitor. He made a discovery that dwarfs those of Pythagoras, Galileo and Einstein. He set in motion the ability of humankind to civilize itself and develop a moral and ethical ...
The Prophet Isaiah said: “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your ...
This first transaction of faith transforms land from prophecy into possession, from dream into destiny. The Torah repeats the word ויקם — “was established” — to teach that the field of Ephron rose in ...
As an Israeli, two years of brutal war have taught me that trauma often replaces compassion with survival. Some days I feel ...
Since October 7, Israel has banned all Palestinian workers from entering Israel. Even with a ceasefire now in place, most of that ban remains. On paper, that may sound like security; in practice, it ...
For an American audience: DIRCO is South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation—the exact equivalent ...
The United Nations, which adopted resolution after resolution against Israel, can barely muster a murmur over Sudan. No ...
A lively debate has erupted across Pakistan’s political and public circles over the country’s possible inclusion in an international peacekeeping mission for post-war Gaza — a role that could mark one ...
The Civil War destroyed the legal structure of slavery but not the theology that sustained it. The same biblical imagination that once sanctified bondage survived Reconstruction and found new ...