In a landmark decision for cultural heritage, the 43rd General Conference of UNESCO, held in Samarkand last week, officially ...

Shunning, rather than debate, is the best response to antisemites, and how social media has given new life to this ancient ...

Conference of European Rabbis event, the first of its kind in a Muslim country, was expected to attract hundreds of participants ...

Next time you find yourself swaying along to Bob Marley’s Exodus, pay attention to the lyrics. “We know where we’re going. We know where we’re from. We leaving Babylon. We going to our Father’s Land.” ...

HOSTAGE SQUARE, TEL AVIV — As Donald Trump arrived in Tel Aviv Monday to take a victory lap at the Israeli Knesset, in the streets of this traumatized city, it was a love fest for the American ...

FIRST, SOME GOOD news (I think!) and a personal note to all those who walked with me as I discerned my new calling. Your prayers were and are deeply appreciated and I am now no longer a deacon, at ...

If there is one book that is emphasized more than all else in the Orthodox Jewish world it’s the Babylonian Talmud, affectionately known as the Bavli. And yet, there might be sources to indicate that ...

What is the meaning of the 2,500-year old Hebrew psalm for oppressed groups? Gebhard Fugel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader ...

This is Dutch artist Jacob van Loo’s depiction of Judean Gov. Zerubbabel showing King Cyrus the Great of Babylon his plan to rebuild Jerusalem. Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

In these unsettling times — when the post-war world order is being dismantled, perpetual allies are treated like enemies and hostile nations like friends, and commitments are tossed aside — the words ...