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Humility and Trembling Before God in Book of Ruth Jaroslava Halper Upon reading the Book of Ruth on Shavuot a couple of days ago I was struck by two...
In the upper lefthand corner of The New York Times’ front page is the historic, famous and revered motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,”...
“Why are you abandoning me?” A Plea to Diaspora Jewry I grew up in a Zionist community in Australia. Most of us belonged to Zionist youth...
At our Tikkun Layl Shavuot last week, Bruce Elman — a retired law professor and dean, an expert on Constitutional law — asked a deceptively simple...
One Young Life, One Unbearable Loss Alex Miller was 23 years old. Originally from Miami, he moved to Israel, served as a combat soldier in the IDF,...
Palestinians have gone through another electoral exercise that was not, in any democratic sense, an election. They have not chosen a president since...
I recently came upon a basket of old magazines gathering dust in the attic, and found some relics I decided were worth keeping: an issue of the...
In Part 3 of this series, I will focus on the aftermath of Salomon’s rebellion, and on his granddaughter Olga. I have been fascinated by her life...
My father served in the U.S. Army in Italy. My mother served as a lieutenant in the WAVES, the Navy’s women’s reserve, stationed stateside. Both...
As our convoy departed southern Lebanon and slowly approached the Israeli border, I began the long and difficult transition from soldier back to...
Countries, like individuals, have consciences. For those of us who reject the extremism, bigotry and intolerance of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government,...
Although there are other long-running, severe conflicts in the world, such as those in Syria, Yemen, parts of Africa, Myanmar, and elsewhere, the...
Pope Leo wants us to forget about the idea of a “just war.” Prof. Amos Goldberg, speaking at a conference on genocide, reminds us that the...
What Lithuania Means When It Says Jews “Vanished,” “Lost,” or “Perished” and Lost Herrings examined Lithuania’s vocabulary: Jews...
Polish-Jewish relations during the German occupation of Poland were tortuous at best. As the Nazi occupiers ruthlessly exterminated Polish Jews in a...
In my first piece for Times of Israel, I wrote about how excited I am to visit Israel and the cycling I would do there. This is the sequel and has to...
But first a sad joke: One of the many, many, many, many, indeed far too many little Hasidic rebbelech wanted to impress his congregation by proving...
In 1973, a psychologist named David Rosenhan sent eight ordinary people into psychiatric hospitals. Each one claimed to hear a single word repeating...
In Parshat Behaalotcha (Bamidbar 9:9-13), we read about those who are granted the opportunity to observe Pesach Sheni: God spoke to Moshe saying:...
Digital media has become one of the most influential forces shaping political communication in Somaliland. Over the past two decades, the expansion of...
There was a time when major Australian political parties understood that terrorism was not something to be romanticized, excused, or sanitized. That...
50 years ago to-the-day – ”On This Day” in May 1976 – I left the Kibbutz where I had spent almost two, personally-transformative, years as a...
The United Nations has spent over a decade in Libya doing one thing consistently: failing. It has failed to broker elections, failed to unify rival...
Twenty million followers in six days. A US-based founder. Western press on speed dial. And a founding story that doesn’t hold up to thirty seconds...
When the Nefesh Leaves the Throne Jewish language becomes weak when it is translated too quickly into the language of the modern self. Bitul...
Imagine this. You are driving, You trust the voice in your phone. “In 500 meters, take the next exit.” You are focused. You know where you are...
Get ready with me for another round of miluim. I serve in a unit that provides frontline medical support in combat theaters of operation. Depending on...
At the very moment when climate risks are accelerating across the world and the Middle East, Israel’s National Security Council is stepping back...
Parallel Parsing Torat-Moshe from Biological ‘TWO-initially’ (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית), rather than Cosmological ‘At-beginning’ →...
Lithuania used a public-person ruling to weaken a Jewish critic. In the Fridman case, the same ruling makes the state’s witness harder to protect....
This is an example of the Comparing of Jewish and Islamic Perspectives By Prophets Abraham and Ishmael written By Rabbi Allen Maller, on January 24,...
The Illusion of Normalcy In late April 2025, I had the opportunity to travel on a field mission to Northern Cyprus, a place often overlooked in...
As the dark clouds of antisemitism gather to cast a shadow over Jewish communities worldwide, the question ” Where is the JDL today when we need...
Gazans Forced Jewish Family Members to … … perform humiliating, degrading sexual acts on one another. And let this sink in: It wasn’t “just”...
Thank you for standing beside Israel during one of the most painful and fragile periods in our modern history. In moments when many people around the...
When the City of Seattle decided to brand one of its 2026 FIFA World Cup matches as a “Pride Match,” city organizers likely believed they were...
When Allied soldiers entered the concentration camps in 1945, they did not find an ending. They found the catastrophe still unfolding. They found a...
My family and I just celebrated our middle daughter’s bat mitzvah, and throughout all the moments–the ceremonious, the silly, the profound–I...
President Trump claimed full sovereignty over the Persian Gulf early in this war – but left it at talk. Iran responded by claiming sovereignty over...
Israel, Iran, and the curvature of strategic reality As John Wheeler distilled Einstein’s general relativity: spacetime tells matter how to move,...
An Open Letter to the Members of the Knesset and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Distinguished Members of the Knesset, Prime Minister Benjamin...
For decades after the Holocaust, civilized society agreed on one moral line that could never be crossed again: Jews would never again be treated as...
The Greek term christos occurs more than 500 times in the New Testament, and is used directly to Jesus of Nazareth. While many Christians today think...
The case of the woman suspected of being faithful to her husband, known as “Sotah,” is very perplexing. This woman is claiming her innocence,...
Love and hate are extremes. Support and opposition are the reality. In my somewhat satirical article — satirish, if you will — “I’m Not a...
Hezbollah has weaponized segments of northern Israel’s criminal underworld, converting it into a durable instrument of Iranian hybrid warfare. What...
The old slurs still matter, but the next Jewish bodies may fall to slogans everyone already knows. The American University team—Wendy Melillo, Jeff...
I am publishing this because I have now spent the better part of a decade dealing with Lithuania on Holocaust memory, historical accountability, and...
Donald Trump’s decision to follow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s maximalist assumptions on Iran, rather than the cautionary advice of key...
As a staunch supporter of Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and a proud United States Army veteran trained as a cryptographer, I have often wondered about...
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