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Marking 800 days since they were abducted, 22 former hostages on Sunday demanded the government either establish a state commission of inquiry into...


Hundreds of Arab residents of Jaffa marched in protest Saturday after a pregnant woman from the community was allegedly pepper-sprayed by Jews...

A simple exchange between friends recently captured a dilemma at the heart of our age. Two people were debating global affairs when I interrupted...

Several years ago, Rabbi Zev Leff, a prominent Rabbi from Israel, was visiting his daughter’s family in Scotland. There was a soccer match between...

We get certain insights into the personalities of the various sons of Yakov. Our first introduction to Yosef is that he was a pretty annoying...


Settling into my seat in synagogue one morning earlier this week, I suddenly noticed a rifle propped up against the wall. The scene was jarring....

We are currently in the midst of the religious war for the global caliphate. And whether they realize it or not, the palestinianist/antizionist...

In recent years, a familiar claim has taken hold in American Jewish cultural discourse: Jews are powerful. We are wealthy. We are influential. We...

I keep coming back to an uncomfortable thought: when something truly awful happens, many of us look for an explanation before we acknowledge what...


DOHA, Qatar — The deputy director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme says food security in Gaza has improved since a ceasefire came into...


A crowd of some 1,500 people gathered at Tel Aviv’s Habima Square on Saturday night to protest the government, as smaller crowds gathered in...


Some say that when the infamous Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky — born Lev Bronstein — lived in the Bronx at the beginning of the last century,...

In Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones faces off against a skilled swordsman in a crowded Shuk . When the Arab man performs an elaborate...


Israeli security sources reportedly expressed concern that the assassination of Hamas commander Raad Saad in Gaza on Saturday could further delay...


Yashar party chair and ex-military chief Gadi Eisenkot drew backlash from both the government and members of the opposition on Saturday for...


A Palestinian who allegedly hurled an explosive device at Israeli soldiers during a raid in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Harithiya on...


Academics are important, but don't forget emotional and social readiness.

Part of Israeli culture Thirty years ago, I was new in the country. I crossed at a pedestrian crossing, and a sports car had to brake for me. The...


I speak as an outsider. A wandering Jewess. One who belongs everywhere and nowhere at once. One who did not grow up wrapped in certainty, but in...

Embed from Getty Images Today (December 14, 2025), representatives of the Kabyle people are expected to proclaim the independence of Kabylia, a...

For the Twelfth Zionist Congress held in Carlsbad (now in the Czech Republic) in 1921, 11 artists contributed works which were specially printed...

This is the third and final chapter in a three-part series on King Hassan II’s views on Israel. To read the first chapter, click here. To read the...

As my mother was dying in America, growing weaker month by month, the flowers out on our porch were dying, too. It couldn’t be helped. It was...


This development comes on the heels of the 70th anniversary of Philippines-Germany diplomatic relations last year. That milestone saw German...


Hanukkah in Jerusalem does not announce itself with fanfare. It simply occupies space. Menorahs appear where Jewish life unfolds naturally: in...


Poles traditionally suspect Russia of major acts of sabotage committed by Ukrainian special services on Polish territory. Border Guard cameras...


Happiness is a journey, not a finish line.


Last year, during Hanukkah, on the Gaza front, a profound moment of unity and inspiration transpired when Col. Richard Kemp CBE, a distinguished...

In 2019, prior to the filing of the indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, then-chairman of the Jewish Agency, tried...



The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen. Australia will lower flags to half-mast in a national gesture of mourning for...


Long before gifts were distributed on Chanuka, there was a tradition to give Chanuka gelt (money in German). The Rashba (1235-1310) mentions a...


The US State Department has sent formal requests to over 70 countries asking for troops or money for the emerging international security force it...


PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday...


Life lessons for teen athletes and other performers from a wizard of music.


Before October 7, I was a Hellenist Jew. Not in the literal, academic sense — but in the way many of us were without ever naming it. I believed,...

A confrontation between the United States and Venezuela would be sold as a hemispheric morality play: sanctions, sovereignty, oil, and the familiar...


In this episode we hear tales of bravery by fearless Mountain Jews. Morduk starts the Pesakh tales of exploits sought, of dangers braved, the...

97 — Knife to Meet You: The Akeidah’s Cutting Insight Our Gemara on Amud Beis quotes a proof text that a knife must be used to slaughter the Olah...


Video Caption: “Sarah, Je suis Juif Palestinien” (French) — “Sarah, I Am a Palestinian Jew.” Lyrics & music: Willy Lipschutz / William Lip....

BLOG “BIBI RESIGN” 13 December 2025 The blog shown below (dated 11 December 2025) the dashed line is the original blog that I was planning to...

Professor Shaul Magid is right about something fundamental: liberal Zionism is in crisis. October 7 and the devastation of Gaza have not merely...


For more than two millennia, the Jews of Yemen preserved the closest living pronunciation to Biblical Hebrew, untouched by European reforms or...

In an election cycle swept by a blue wave, Zohran Mamdani is surfing the crest. Mayor-elect Mamdani, as a member of the Democratic Socialists of...

This past week, at the American Zionist Movement’s Biennial National Assembly , I sat down with Mark Wilf, Chairman of the Board of Governors of...

March 6, 1942 There is a lot of sub rosa talk in the neutral countries about the possibilities of a separate peace with the Soviet Union. In London...

We all know the slogan, “In case of risks and adverse effects, read the package insert and ask your doctor or pharmacist.” But last month in...


The question isn’t whether Honduras can escape its role as Washington’s most obedient client state; it’s whether the United States will finally...


تبدو مفاهيم المواطنة والولاء في ظاهرها بديهية، لكنها في الواقع من أكثر القضايا...
