Frederick Douglass used the words of Psalm 137 in his famous speech, ‘What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?’ For centuries, ...

Omer looks different now, after spending 505 days in captivity in Gaza. His brown hair is cropped shorter than the floppy ...

As we immerse ourselves in the facts of spiritual reality, we experience a joyful sense of confidence and direction.

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them!“ ...

A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — ...

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Gamal Abdel Nasser, as a young Egyptian army officer, was surrounded by Israeli forces during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in ...

I’ve no doubt that Netanyahu and his coalition partners perform the prescribed Jewish ceremonies and celebrate the essential holidays in some form. Nor do I question their genealogical heritage from ...

One of the beauties of this book is its superb organization. Topics are split up into logical sections with clear titles and footnotes, allowing the reader to quickly locate the answers to ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...