Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses two kinds of meal offerings that differ in the shape of their vessel and process. One was more of a flat pan (machavas), so it was shallowly fried and dry and crisp.

This happened because they had spent the previous day immersed in the Divine until their souls outshone their egos. Our bodies compete for space, attention, and resources; our souls do not. The body ...

Believe them! War is ugly. Jews, of all people, know this better than most. Our prayers plead for peace three times a day. When the President of the United States—whether one admires him or despises ...

Even if Iran’s military apparatus survived an initial conflict, its economy could not withstand the loss of oil revenues. Many lower- and mid-level IRGC members are driven less by ideology than by ...

Political correctness began with a simple idea: respect. The goal was to encourage language that avoids demeaning or excluding others and to promote a more thoughtful public discourse. For many years, ...

Lithuania did not inherit this credibility problem from its adversaries. It manufactured it itself. This is why the Fridman ...

From the blog of Harriet Gimpel at The Times of Israel ...

The Torah records every contribution — gold, silver, copper, fabrics, wood, oil, and precious stones — with extraordinary ...

In June last year, in the first week of the previous war with Iran, I wrote that even a justified war can become strategically dangerous if it is fought without direction, and that the most basic ...

Reflecting on his own radicalization, he told us, “You know someone is no longer radicalized when they can say, ‘I do not ...

Why Somaliland Matters to U.S. Strategy in the Red Sea. In recent years, the strategic importance of the Red Sea has grown dramatically. Once viewed primarily as a vital shipping ...

The noise has been deafening lately. Not long before Israel and the U.S. launched the ongoing attack against Iran, a senior ...