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Parashiyot Vayikra and Tzav present a detailed catalogue of nearly all the sacrifices that are not tied to the calendar. A significant number of these offerings function as atonement for various infractions and sins. In Parashat Tzav, after…

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃
And God told Moshe, say thus (i.e. repeat verbatim)

צַ֤ו אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֣יו לֵאמֹ֔ר זֹ֥את…

The Structural Limits of Wartime Alignment

The current phase of the conflict has exposed a widening strategic and political divergence between Washington and Jerusalem—one that was always structurally present but is now unmistakably…

On March 15, 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Margaret
Brennan of CBS Face the Nation, “I offered actually that we are ready to dilute
those enriched material, or down-blend them, as they say, into lower
percentage. So that…

For years, Israelis have lived with a kind of fear that is difficult to fully grasp from a distance. It is the fear of sirens in the middle of the night. The fear of seconds to find shelter. The fear that a rocket, launched with little…

Hamas flood
against Jerusalem

Hezbollah, Iran
against us

Houthis

Bondi Beach

They tried
they all tried
for thousands of years

But
mountains surround Jerusalem
and G-d surrounds His nation

Now

Forever

***

From the time of Abraham, the first Jew,…

There are actually four instances in Jewish Law that may be referred to as subterfuge, or finding a loophole in the law. In Hebrew, this is referred to as “Ha’arama.”

The basis for allowing these rules to be “bent” a little bit, was…

Like many Jewish Canadians I am anxiously following the wartime news from Israel in real time updates from a number of Israeli and secular international news outlets several times a day.   I watch and worry for my Israeli friends and…

Here is an uncomfortable proposition: Banksy, the most celebrated protest artist of his generation, has done more to preserve the Israeli separation barrier than to dismantle it. That is not his intention. It may not even be his fault. But…

Should Israelis have to prove their ancestry with a DNA test? Tucker Carlson seems to think so.

In his interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee — widely covered for the geopolitical fireworks over Iran, Gaza, and Israeli…