Recently, a British journalist asked me whether Israel’s growing isolation in the wake of October 7 was inherently “Jewish.” In her view, Israel was retreating from the world – turning ...

The revelatory moment at Mount Sinai is bookended by two challenging passages. Six sentences before the giving of the “10 sayings” (aseret hadibrot), also known as the Ten Commandments, we ...

Having completed the last two and highly important Torah portions, Yitro and Mishpatim, we come face to face with the very essence of Judaism. Joined together by the letter vav, at the beginning ...

The family of Yitro Shahen, the Druze man who carried out the deadly stabbing attack in Haifa on Monday, claimed on Tuesday that they have medical documents attesting to his mental condition ...