For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

The Dor Moriah Analytics Center has been closely studying Israeli society. Over two years, the organization's experts ...

The truth is that there is no gray area. One is either a Jew or one is not. There are no half-Jews, no spectrum. And being ...

The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...

Is it possible for a book to feel both timely and like a relic from a different era? In the case of The Islamic Moses, by the Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol, the answer is yes. The book was completed ...

the Jewish Political Tradition; the Information Society. His new book (in Hebrew, with Tali Friedman): RELIGIOUS ZIONISTS RABBIS' FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Between Halakha, Israeli Law, and ...

Much smaller shares of Muslims in Israel and Turkey agree. Among Israelis who are Jewish, about a third support making halakha, or Jewish law, the state law for Jews in Israel. When it comes to ...

The better question is: Does Israel, as a Jewish state, adequately protect the rights of all the individuals under its dominion? The answer is no. Consider this scenario: If Scotland legally ...

For Weisz-Gut, maintaining a Jewish presence in the town – even if tiny – is vital. As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp nears, on January 27, a disturbing trend is emerging ...

The US State Department and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) sent Laura Margolis to Shanghai to help them move on to their next destination, but the war intervened, and she ended up ...