The latest season of this ‘Iranian Spring’ began on 28 December 2025, when highly influential merchants of Tehran’s Grand ...
As a not too gross generalization, most Israeli Jews are animated by a particularistic ethos. Simply put, this is an ethic rooted in Jewish peoplehood, survival, and the country’s unique circumstances ...
The writing of the Septuagint was celebrated by many, yet our sages describe this moment as darkness descending on the world.
At first glance, Joseph appears to embody an ideal model for Jewish life in the diaspora: full integration into a powerful ...
While leaders have changed, borders have shifted, and even some names have been altered, a handful of nations referenced in ...
The New Year brings into one’s thought processes the need to rethink and evaluate the events and circumstances of the ...
COMMENTARY: The first witnesses to the messianic birth are not the great and the good but the lowly shepherds.
Christmas sets off a unique season. A season of sobriety. A season of reflection. A season reminding man of his smallness. Yet a time of ...
Because the word epiphany means “manifestation or openly appearing,” both feasts—the visit of the Magi and the baptism of ...
President reiterates call for a state commission of inquiry at event marking the 10th of Tevet Jewish fast, says probe is ...
Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...
One of the four fasts mourning the Temple's destruction, today marks the day the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem began.