Shimon bar Yohai used to lead the prayers at the synagogue in Kefar Nakhum*. This be a journey he told to me. * Capernaeum ...

You know those “fun” quizzes that are so popular at this time of year. Well here’s a “fun” post-Christmas quiz. But it has ...

As I’ve written elsewhere, something similar is happening at the International Court of Justice. Over there, the expanded ...

This week, we honor three hostages who are marking their second birthdays in captivity: Matan Zangauker (25), who was ...

Her phone suddenly went silent, none of her Iranian contacts knew what had happened to her, but the following day the ...

Cecilia Sala, the intrepid Italian journalist who boarded a flight to Tehran with all the enthusiasm of Alice stepping into ...

Napoleonic laws that gave the Jewish people civil rights sparked a major period of rejuvenation for Jewish households in ...

Smile carries a lot of meaning across cultures. When working in China, I’ve learned that smiling is a sign of nervousness ...

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.’” Among the lives of people, individuals and cultures there ...

Moses teaches us that non-nations will hurt us when we serve non-gods. Although today, we have more Gentile friends than ever in world history, we can’t say we Jews are not bothered by all kinds of ...

Gazans can in many ways be thought of as a separate ethnicity from West Bank Palestinians. This is because Gazans have ...

But it’s worth knowing that a hero is also something very specific. To make the definition more complicated, a hero has a ...