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President Emmanuel Macron of France has initiated a diplomatic process that brings Palestinian statehood one step closer to fruition yet still very far from realization.

Yesterday, at a followup United Nations conference on a two-state…

When Jews ask why Rosh HaShanah exists and what is biblically rooted versus rabbinically developed, the forensic path begins with Torah itself and continues through Chazal and later commentators.

In Sefer Vayikra, the day is called Yom Teruah…

Philippe Kersanty is the spokesperson for the Trump France committee.

Osama bin Laden explicitly cited the Al-Dura case as justification both for the assassination of Daniel Pearl, a journalist from the Washington Post, who was about to find…

77 years ago, the United Nations voted to recognize the independent State of Israel, an event that was 2,000 years in the making. The prior independent State of Israel was destroyed by the Romans after the Bar Kokhba Rebellion in the year…

I, an Israeli who lives in Tel Aviv and have had to spend hours in my safe…

Looking at the facts: Netanyahu’s sudden trip to Washington, the unusual deployment of Egyptian forces in Sinai, the flood of weapons worth 6 billion shekels arriving in Israel, the threats from Arab states, and Naftali Bennett’s…

France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are cosponsoring a resolution at the United Nations supporting the “right of return” of the Palestinians to Israel within its pre-June 1967 borders (see, for example, section 14 of the New York…

Netanyahu is desperately looking for scapegoats for the international isolation he has led Israel into. In this country, it is the opposition and the “Kaplanists,” and in Europe, it is the Muslim immigrants who are supposedly coercing the…

For over two decades I have been writing about similarities and connections between Islam and Judaism in the areas of law and theology. Here I turn to some similar insights and feelings of eighteenth century Hassidic Rabbis and a medieval…

There are moments when you stumble upon an image on social media that shakes you to your core, not because of its artistry, not because of its daring, but because of its brazenness. This week, I came across such an image: the outline of Gaza,…