Spirituality/Tradition
The Weight of Leadership
With the recent inauguration of an American president, another Israeli election, and heated issues about gun control against the background of...
American-born Orthodox Rabbi Among the Surprising Faces of Israel’s Rising Centrist Party
The surprise of Israel's 2013 election was the rapid ascendance of the new Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, led by former television celebrity Yair Lapid, at the expense of Israel's known political entities....
The Holocaust Remembered at the State Department
WASHINGTON, DC - A city accustomed to House and Senate hearings witnessed a different kind of testimony on Monday. Father Patrick Desbois, president of the Yahad-In Unum (YIU) Association of France, has undertaken the mission to investigate...
Year in Israel: Seminary Girls Want to Have More Than Fun
Every year, hundreds of eager eighteen-year-old girls from all over the world step off the plane at Ben Gurion airport to spend a year studying in seminaries across Israel. These girls, also known as 'sem...
The Hebrew Bible As Common Ground
Followers of the three great Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which comprise more than half...
Israeli Lawmakers Visit Hungary to Discuss Antisemitism
A delegation of leading parliamentarians from Israel and Europe traveled to Budapest over the weekend,...
Shabbos in Davos
Shabbos in Davos. Almost rhymes, like the two are meant to be together. And so it...
Atheistic Science is Rapidly Sinking in the Quicksand
Dr. George Church, a pioneering molecular geneticist at Harvard/MIT, informed us in a Sciencexpress article...
The World Learned the Wrong Lesson From the Holocaust
Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. Holocaust Remembrance day in Israel. It is the day Israelis...
The Weight of Leadership
With the recent inauguration of an American president, another Israeli election, and heated issues about gun control against the background of another...
American-born Orthodox Rabbi Among the Surprising Faces of Israel’s Rising Centrist Party
The surprise of Israel's 2013 election was the rapid ascendance of the new Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, led by former television celebrity...
The Holocaust Remembered at the State Department
WASHINGTON, DC - A city accustomed to House and Senate hearings witnessed a different kind of testimony on Monday. Father Patrick Desbois, president of the Yahad-In Unum...
Year in Israel: Seminary Girls Want to Have More Than Fun
Every year, hundreds of eager eighteen-year-old girls from all over the world step off the plane at Ben Gurion airport to spend a year studying...
The Hebrew Bible As Common Ground
Followers of the three great Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which comprise more than half the world's 7 billion people--frequently spend more time focusing on...
Israeli Lawmakers Visit Hungary to Discuss Antisemitism
A delegation of leading parliamentarians from Israel and Europe traveled to Budapest over the weekend, where they voiced their concern at the growing level...
Shabbos in Davos
Shabbos in Davos. Almost rhymes, like the two are meant to be together. And so it felt this past weekend at the alpine World Economic Forum...
Atheistic Science is Rapidly Sinking in the Quicksand
Dr. George Church, a pioneering molecular geneticist at Harvard/MIT, informed us in a Sciencexpress article in August of 2012, that the digital-information storage capacity of...
The World Learned the Wrong Lesson From the Holocaust
Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. Holocaust Remembrance day in Israel. It is the day Israelis and Jews the world over remind themselves, "Never again." For years,...
Holocaust Survivor Tells BBC She Keeps Camp Tattoo as a Reminder of Atrocity
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday, the BBC has published a moving interview with Henia Bryer, a survivor who will be featured in a...
Middle Eastern Threats Against Christians Unite Region’s Denominations
The difficulties of Christians in the Middle East have enabled the region's Christian communities to unite and bridge their differences, according to the...
American Jews and Israel Have Never Been Closer
Despite occasional media warnings of a "distancing" between American Jews and Israel, there is nothing like actually visiting the Jewish state to feel...
Did Quentin Tarantino Promote Antisemitic Ideology?
Antisemitism is a very flexible ideology. We know of Islamist antisemitism, the Iranian threat, Arab antisemitism, left-wing, right-wing and mainstream anti-Zionist European antisemitism. We also...
Christian Egyptian Convert and Her Children Sentenced to Prison
An Egyptian woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison together with her seven children for converting to Christianity. Her supporters are...
