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There is an important concept in Judaism known as Halacha Le’Moshe Mi’Sinai. This is a key principle related to the Oral Law.

When we are told that Hashem dictated the Torah to Moshe on Mount Sinai, some picture him like a secretary…

The news media in the West and throughout the world have unfortunately focused on the negative possibilities with the demise of the Ayatollah regime in Iran which has been imploding recently due to economic collapse, civil unrest inside Iran…

The assassination of Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi should not be read as a purely Libyan event. It is a Mediterranean one. His killing marks another step in the slow militarization of the sea’s southern shore — where political alternatives are…

Beijing is not “investing” in the Caribbean the way a normal commercial actor invests. It is building optionality for coercion: logistics access, political leverage, and informational positioning in the United States’ near…

Not long ago, I wrote about no longer agreeing with my old intellectual hero, Noam Chomsky. I had left the comforts of my Marxist and post-colonial views of the state of Israel, and decided these ways of understanding the state, and Jews in…

India is moving rapidly into Western‑aligned trade networks and climbing toward the world’s top three economies. For Israel, this evolving trade architecture offers a rare opening; one that demands speed,…

After President Donald Trump released a blatantly racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in a jungle, a Trump voter from New Mexico called into C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Friday, February 6, and attempting to hold back…

When Jews say “from the river to the sea” feels antisemitic, they are not necessarily misinterpreting it. While many anti-Zionist…

Trying to pin down a single “Israeli personality” is a bit like trying to capture lightning in a bottle—it is high-energy, multifaceted, and deeply rooted in a blend of Middle Eastern warmth and European grit. The most common term you…

When studying the laws of damages in Parshat Mishpatim, we come across the dangers of an open pit (Shmot 21:33-34):

If a man uncovers a pit (bor) or if a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it, the owner of…