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The Century of Blood – Europe’s 20th-Century Atrocities Against Jews

(As published in Part 1 of this series, Europe’s long history of negation—from papal decrees of perpetual servitude to royal expulsions and ecclesiastical…

The furor started with a statement by America’s vice president.

“Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in church?” J.D. Vance responded to a question regarding his Hindu wife. “Yeah,” the VP—a…

Instead of reacting to massive wildfires, a new system developed by the Israeli company FireDome, a beneficiary of support from the Israel Innovation Authority’s Startup Fund, aims to stop fires while they are still small. FireDome’s…

From Lab to Life: High School Reject to…Nobel? Yifat Merbl

The Times of Israel has just reported that Weizmann Institute scientist Prof. Yifat Merbl has been…

Zevachim 112 — “The Firstborn Opportunity Cost”

Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses that prior to the inauguration of the Mishkan, sacrificial service was performed by the firstborn. They lost this privilege due to the sin of the Golden…

On Friday December 2025, Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland’s self-government state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the move as “in the spirit of the Abraham…

About a year ago, I made a deliberate choice: I no longer wanted to observe the global rise of antisemitism from the sidelines. I wanted to be proactive.

That decision led me to connect with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism…

At the beginning of Parshas Vayigash, Yosef dramatically ended the saga with his brothers by revealing his identity to them: “I am Yosef” (Bereishis 45:3). His brothers “were unable to respond” to this and were silenced. Translators…

That’s it. One simple reason.

October 7 has taught us this important lesson.

Talking about other reasons or other issues just distracts from the clear reason for not giving away land. It’s just too dangerous.

So all those who talk about…

How Judaism Shaped Humanity’s Moral Compass

Modern society often speaks about universal values; human rights, equality, justice, the sanctity of life, as if they emerged naturally through human progress or Enlightenment thinking. In…