Most people, at some point in their lives, have felt invincible, unstoppable, almost G-dly. And yet, at other times, these very same people have felt weak, incapable, deflated, and worthless.

In much of the West, particularly in the United States, silence is often perceived as awkward, a sign of disengagement or lack of confidence. But in some East Asian cultures, such as Japan, silence co ...

Moshe gave the Shema knowing he would not cross the Jordan. He prepared his people not with possessions, but with patterns. That is the quiet brilliance of leadership: offering rhythm in place of prox ...

This is why Rebbe Yossi ben Kisma rejected a substantial monetary offer to move to a city lacking a strong Torah presence. He explained that he prioritized Torah learning and good deeds over money bec ...

Recollection is a deeply human act. It asks us to step beyond the immediacy of the present and re-enter the chambers of earlier experience.

If a person has an optimistic attitude, the cognitive bias will seek reasons to feel better. It is an inescapable factor in human consciousness that the attitude itself shapes the outcome.

Some might argue that the old democratic socialists were comfortable with an Israel governed by the Labor Party – then a proud member of the Socialist International – during an era when the kibbut ...

Printed by the Christian typographer Vincenzo Conti, this edition embodies both the splendor and the tragedy of Hebrew printing in 16th-century Italy. Conti, a singular figure in the annals of Jewish ...

The sense that Israel should give up trying to eradicate Hamas and that Hamas’s fictions had to be taken seriously despite its history of fabrications and staged crises was palpable and not at all h ...

It is being alleged that President Obama intended to scuttle the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server and mishandling of highly classified information during h ...

In the war of ideas, we don't have an army . . . if we lose in the battle of ideas, then we won't be able to win in the battle on the ground.– Naftali Bennett interview with The Jewish Press ...

Moshe Phillips, author, commentator, and veteran pro-Israel activist, is the national chairman of Americans For A Safe Israel (www.AFSI.org), a leading pro-Israel advocacy and education organization.