Across Israel, families who have experienced death and immense pain have somehow found the strength to choose life. In doing ...

The plot is evergreen because it answers a primal need: suffering must have an author. Chaos must have a conductor. If there ...

Over the past few decades, Israel has changed core political rules again and again: raising the electoral threshold, ...

Aside from the destruction and desecration of churches, these religious structures were essentially harvested for icons to ...

Sadly, it has come to be expected that when posting about antisemitism in North America and Europe, some automatically ...

The Midrash of the Tall One: Adam, the Giraffe, and the Vertical Light of Creation A kabbalistic reading of a creature that bridges heaven and earth.

In effect, the Haredi world has taken one crucial limb of the old Jewish body – the beit midrash – and tried to live inside ...

While I’ve been grateful for Shai’s advocacy for quite some time, I didn’t know much about her beyond the unapologetic truth ...

While an existential security crisis—the geopolitical collapse of the Sahel—threatens to engulf North Africa, Algiers remains ...

Gatekeeper of the Territories: Israel’s COGAT and the Daily Lives of Palestinians COGAT will play an essential role in the ...

Lag BaOmer bonfires and picnics have been adopted by some with a fervor as if Moses himself had commanded them. Mimunah is celebrated as if Judaism can’t do without it. More recently, Ashkenazic Jews ...

On October 7, 2023, the western side of the kibbutz — the neighborhood where our young adults lived — suffered the heaviest ...