On May 10–11, 2026, the town of Balta in Ukraine’s Odesa region hosted Jewish Culture Days — a festival that showed something important and often overlooked: Jewish life in ...

Israel regarding a “renewed military strengthening” of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The message is clear: Hamas is rebuilding its ...

Riyadh’s muted response to Iranian aggression reveals a leadership driven more by fear and domestic troubles than coherent ...

The billions sent to Israel do not disappear overseas — they circulate through American factories, weapons labs and strategic ...

David captured the fortress of Zion, which is the City of David.” At first, Zion was a physical place—a stronghold in ...

Incredibly, this allegedly occurred just a day after the commission concluded its first week of hearings. Hearings in which ...

At the center of it all stands Sir Keir Starmer — a leader who has managed to project neither conviction nor competence.

A righteous cause does not sanctify every tactic. Agunos deserve justice, but Orthodox women’s bodies should not become ...

With regular instances of gunfire and arson against synagogues, Jewish institutions and businesses, many Canadian Jews feel ...

The New York Times has been central to this pattern. Let me show how. On October 17, 2023, near the beginning of Israel’s military incursion into Gaza following the October 7 massacre, the world was ...

It lives in my glove compartment, folded up next to the registration. In Hebrew, it is called an afod zohar. Luminous vest. Glowing ephod. That second word stopped me. The ephod — אֵפוֹד — is one of ...

Fiddler on the Roof. A colleague involved in our Chinese-Jewish Exchange project recently told me that this musical deeply ...