In Judaism, specifically in the Torah, we have records showing the importance of burial itself. We know that Abraham bought ...

The digital fishbowl doesn’t only expose differences within the Jewish world. It also blurs the borders between insiders and observers. Jewish learning posted online is visible to everyone, and that ...

I am deeply concerned about the allegations of sexual harassment against former governor Cuomo, and even so, without hesitation, I support his candidacy for mayor. As a feminist, ...

America’s arguments over Israel are a litmus test of the nation’s civic health. Unlike other distant foreign-policy disputes, the question of Israel, to borrow Martin Luther King, Jr.’s resonant ...

This essay asks why, when societies splinter, Jews and Kurds so often become the chosen emblems of blame. It examines the psychology that makes scapegoats useful and the politics that keeps them close ...

But at the time, Israel was on a different trajectory: the occupation was finally being wound down, Basic Laws passed three years before the assasination had turned Israeli courts into defenders of ...

This most magnificent metaphor comforted not only Abraham. To this day, it allows every generation of his spiritual progeny to feel exceptional. Carl Sagan famously reminded us that we are “star stuff ...

Abraham was a warrior who would stop at nothing to bring his kidnapped nephew–who was really like a son– home. And so too ...

Mandani proved the point: Satmar and Neturei Karta are not opposites. They are mirror images. One hides behind Talmud; the other hides behind Twitter. But both are preaching the same heresy — that ...

In 2025, with a boatload of arrogance, Greta twice joined a “humanitarian” flotilla that sailed to the Gaza Strip. Dubbed the “selfie yacht”, the ship that Greta sailed on epitomized the performative ...

Israel’s next tech revolution is no mystery. It is a roadmap with three bold routes and a single destination: a nation that turns ideas into infrastructure, discoveries into companies, and companies ...

The Holy One said to the moon: Go, diminish yourself.” (Chullin 60b) “תִּקְוַת חוּט הַשָּׁנִי הַזֶּה.” “The hope of this scarlet thread.” (Yehoshua 2:18) When the Holy One told the moon to diminish ...