The irony is as thick as it is tragic. They decry ‘occupation’ while literally occupying a Dutch university, turning it into a battlefield and intimidating anyone who dares stand for Israel or for ...

Rabbi Kook he reminds us that, as a general rule, as long as a Jew yearns for the betterment of the Israelite Nation in ...

A country like Israel — a hi-tech hub — should have the basics in place for diseases like PSP. In a nation of 10 million, ...

Organizations like UNRWA, Oxfam Novib, and Amnesty International trip over themselves to paint Israel as a heartless ...

There are some 300,000 cars on Jerusalem’s roads today, their number swelling with each passing year, this in spite of ...

Vanson at The Times of Israel ...

“It was taught in a beraita, ‘Do not place a stumbling block in front of a blind man’ (Vayikra 19:14). This verse refers to one who hits his big son (‘beno ha-godol’).” (Moed Kattan 17a).

Your Egypt might have even been your Eden, the perfect place and situation for you at a previous time of your life. Whether your situation is an Egypt or an Eden is not so much about the place or ...

Diaspora Historical Support. The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 marked a significant milestone in Jewish history, largely supported by the financial contributions of the Jewish Diaspora.

The Haggadah says that we celebrate Passover as if we, today, were there. And yet after biblical times, early in the Talmudic era, the rabbis imagined a human hero at the Red Sea: Nachshon ben ...

Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

In Genesis, Jacob wrestles a mysterious man who eventually reveals himself to be G-d and renames Jacob to “Israel” meaning to struggle with G-d. True to the origins of it’s name, Israel has struggled ...