|
The Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Last week, I made a journey to Kibbutz Nir Oz to hear the story of an extraordinary young man. Sagui Dekel-Chen returned to his kibbutz to perform a...
As we enter Elul and mark the yahrzeit of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, I find myself thinking about resilience. A recent Jerusalem Post...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to accept responsibility for Oct. 7. Now he wants us to believe he has no responsibility for the...
A new defense compact linking Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia may never place another army on India’s border. Its real power lies in the...
The helicopter comes in low over the pad, and before it’s fully down the doors are open and they’re running. Two soldiers. One has lost both legs...
In my former capacity as head of school, principal and now executive coach and day school consultant, I am often asked to describe the characteristics...
When organizations begin preparing for the Quantum Era, the conversation usually starts in the same place: encryption. And for good reason, much of...
As another school year begins, I find myself thinking about something that I believe is essential to a child’s success in school and yet often...
When a casualty notification officer knocks on a door in Israel and tells parents that their son has been killed, she now tells them one thing more:...
Bevan Lee’s Australian television series, A Place To Call Home, definitely strikes a chord. A vibrant family drama consisting of 67 episodes, it is...
Among the greatest challenges confronting the United States and Israel this year are our respective populations’ efforts to clarify the values of...
To portray the Naftali Bennett episode as a mere exercise in political opportunism is to underestimate its significance. This was not simply a...
Israel–Africa Technology Partnerships: Investment, Financing, and Diaspora Opportunities in Somaliland Israel-Africa Business Connect (IABC) is a...
New York Magazine’s recent Grub Street article, “When Eating Out Is Political,” tells a compelling story about the changing identity of Middle...
Two people can make Aliyah the same week, to the same city, in similar circumstances, and have completely different experiences of the first year. One...
Divine holiness is sometimes imagined primarily as separation from personal impurity. Scripture certainly commands moral distinctiveness, but holiness...
VENI, VIDI… DID I UNDERSTAND? There is a question about Israel that seems to be asked more and more often, especially by younger people: Why should...
A lone protester outside my embassy raised an obvious question: How would replacing the Middle East’s only free country with yet another...
Ritual, Rhythm, and the Mind: Nadal, the Five Prayers, and the Architecture of Inner Stability There is a moment before every Rafael Nadal serve that...
If you only knew Israel from headlines and social media, you would probably expect it to rank among the least happy countries in the world. The data...
The Israeli High Court has a long record of flouting the law when it comes to Arab parties’ participation in Knesset elections. As the October...
During the period when the Prophet Samuel was the leader of the Jewish people, he was very upset when the people asked for a king to reign over...
The Iran War Could Strengthen the U.S.-Israel Alliance, If Washington and Jerusalem Don’t Waste It Battlefield coordination is real, but unless it...
One striking characteristic of cave paintings is their sensation of movement. Around the head of the painted horse, flames and shadows danced as a...
From Centuries of Indian Ocean Trade to Maritime Security and Economic Cooperation The relationship between India and Somaliland should not be viewed...
The world appears perfectly comfortable with Israel defending itself, provided that its defense never becomes effective enough to defeat the people...
Few novels offer insight not only into how America sees itself, but also into how it may be perceived by parts of the Muslim world. Mohsin Hamid’s...
Twenty years after the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 still sets the right end state for Lebanon: one state, one...
Aromatic herbs & pungent spices (Today – sold in bulk -and- used in quantity As Ingredients) were traditional Medicinals – taken modestly...
There is a disquieting idea circulating at the boundary of physics and machine learning, one that most physicists prefer to dismiss and most computer...
Lithuania’s problem is no longer merely what its historians conclude. It is what the state does to evidence that produces the wrong conclusion....
Rabbi Yaniv Meirov’s new book pairs a two-minute video with every Torah portion — and quietly builds one of the smartest Jewish engagement models...
We are not just a united nation. We are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person. Wait. Is that not discriminatory? Are we...
Luiz Sayão — one of Brazil’s foremost theologians, Hebraists, and linguists — leads us into a profound reflection on how evil ideologies...
Perhaps the General Has Begun Asking the Right Question Gadi Eisenkot has spent most of his adult life inside Israel’s security apparatus. He...
Perhaps the greatest irony of the Oxford Union debate about the motion “This House Believes the West Is Right to Be Suspicious of Islam” was too...
At the Combined Resolve exercise in Germany this spring, Ukrainian drone operators faced US forces and reportedly detected and simulated strikes...
The battle over Ali Al-Taher Hill is no longer simply a confrontation over a strategic position in southern Lebanon. What is happening around it...
President Irro’s diplomatic outreach now intersects with a widening maritime-security network connecting Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Greece...
Running base camp for two very different teams climbing Mount Kilimanjaro gave me a rare vantage point. From there, I watched a small version of the...
Nearly forty years ago at summer camp, I learned a song about a bridge. This year, I learned the significance of the bridge. The song was “Gesher...
The street is almost absurdly small. A few steps lead from the Syriac monastery toward Rehov Chabad. Yet those few steps contain a geography that...
DEATH: Torah; Do Not Murder Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:7 : “Do Not Kill” in Christian translations in accordance with Jesus’ ‘turn the other...
A close loss is a proof of concept. A blowout is a dead end. Tuesday decides which one this was. Since I wrote about James Fishback a few days ago,...
The below text is a copy of the sermon that this writer delivered for Shabbat Shof’tim at Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver, BC on August 15, 2026....
When Anthony Hines was executed by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution August 13, Hines’s son was there, bearing witness to...
Most of the time, saying a month’s name, we don’t think about what it carries inside it, we just say it and move on. This year, saying Elul, I...
The Argument That Needs an Enemy: What happens when you forbid a machine to mention our enemies by Joe Nalven, with Claude Dara Horn reports that...
Behind the rhetoric of sovereignty lies an armed exception called Hezbollah What exactly is meant by Lebanese sovereignty? Is it a principle by which...
On August 11, Oded Ben-Ami, host of Channel 12’s “Six With Oded Ben-Ami” current affairs program, issued an apology to the medical staff of...