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The First Lesson After the Covenant: God Wanted Abraham to Build a Just Society, Not Just Be a Holy Man

Right after promising Abraham a future, God shows him a society about to be erased. The message is stark: if the society collapses, the…

Fifteen theoretical models allow us to better understand the “new antisemitism.”  Contemporary Jewish hatred involves hostility toward Jews that is manifested not through traditional racial or religious stereotypes but rather through…

Why travelling to Israel feels like the safest, honest thing I know…because between calculation and courage lies faith — and sometimes a boarding pass!

Whenever I mention I’m going to Israel soon, some people here in The Diaspora tend…

Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Shlita (Mikhail Salita)

My dear father Abraham,

I write to you with reverence and love. You are the father of our people, and thus you are also my spiritual father. When I read in the Torah the words spoken by the…

Traveling abroad, some fears and anxiety mitigated. We say we won’t speak Hebrew, but we do. Nobody’s dirty looks shot in our direction. In Madrid, only on the Gran Via, once, barely noticeable graffiti for freeing Palestina. The…

Since October 7, Israel has banned all Palestinian workers from entering Israel. Even with a ceasefire now in place, most of that ban remains. On paper, that may sound like security; in practice, it makes both economies poorer and the long…

In the hours after nightfall, as the monks slept in their chambers, a fox came to Bethsaida.

He would have waited for the men to finish their day, to shut out the black night behind doors in order to raid the garbage, as nocturnal wild animals in…

In the hours after nightfall, as the monks slept in their chambers, a fox came to Bethsaida.

He would have waited for the men to finish their day, to shut out the black night behind doors in order to raid the garbage, as nocturnal wild animals in…

Francesca Albanese’s October 2025 campaign in South Africa was not humanitarian diplomacy. Official records reviewed show that her visit—staged under United Nations insignia while she was under US Treasury sanctions—was conceived,…

Last week’s Haredi demonstration against the drafting of their youth into the IDF was, for many people a chilul hashem, a desecration of God’s name, while to others it was a proper act of defiance in a democracy that purportedly values…