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Before Alabama savagely gas-tortured a seventh man to death—Anthony Boyd on October 23rd—in what many legal observers are calling the longest nitrogen-gassing in history, I insisted “someday and somewhere there’ll be a reckoning for…

Allowing Turkey or countries that support the Muslim Brotherhood to be part of the post war arrangement in Gaza is not a harmless step. It is not a humanitarian presence only. It is the foundation of a long term influence inside the most…

Some of our Torah stories would seem unusual by modern standards for how minimal the role of the woman seems to be, but there is!

וַיֹּאמֶר יי לנֹחַ בֹּֽא־אַתָּה וְכׇל־בֵּיתְךָ…

Since Israel was created, we are told, the Jewish people are no longer defenceless. Those who attack us will pay the price. No longer is Jewish blood cheap.

And yet, while thank G-d Israel has a strong record on the military battlefield, it…

Private shiva? Whoever heard of such a thing? Isn’t that almost an oxymoron? Shiva, by its very definition, is public. The mourners open their homes, welcoming visitors who allow others to step into their grief and share the burden with them….

Two of the most significant events in World History were said to have happened in the month of Marcheshvan: Firstly, when Hashem brought a mabul (“flood”) to wipe out humanity in the time of Noah, this calamity began in the eighth month…

We await the return of 13 bodies held hostage in Gaza. If we said, until now, that we can only begin the healing process, once all the hostages are returned, I think it’s not too soon to further qualify that statement. As Hamas violates the…

The BBC has a long history of publishing anti-Israel reports.

Early on in the Gaza war, they accused Israel’s armed forces of carrying out summary executions. They were later forced to publish an apology to the effect that “we had not…

We are finding ourselves experiencing a very different society than the one that most of us can recall from our earlier years. It is as if we have been transported to a new place and time. Many of our core beliefs and practices that described…