But there is more that occurs in this fraught episode of the golden calf. There is a subtle role reversal, or role sharing, between God and Moshe. At first it is God who desires to wipe out the ...

Security and long-term planning are closely connected. When the strategic threat landscape shifts, so does the way people think about the future. Today, more than before, the Diaspora’s connection to ...

Tamima is eight years old, and today she stood in my living room with the moral clarity of the prophet Jeremiah declaring, through tears of apocalyptic proportion, “I’m not going to have my Purim ...

Then, on a Shabbat morning in Montreal, I woke before dawn to the sound of sirens emanating not from the street but from my phone. I had forgotten to close it before Shabbat. The alerts came in rapid ...

In February 2024, Tucker Carlson took immense criticism for flying to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin, an interview that I ...

However, on Purim of 1908, a violent antisemitic event took place there which came to be known as “the Purim events of 1908”, ...

The story of Persia did not end with Esther. It continues today—in the bravery of Iranian women inside the country, in the ...

The fact that there are 'chained women' these days should surprise us, but why there are tells us what tools we need to fight ...

One of the main factors in stopping the massacres and clashes in Rojava was the intense pressure applied by the Israeli government in its talks with the U.S. administration. Israel did not stand ...

Kimpa Vita’s Theology (1704–1708): Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita led the Antonian movement, proclaiming that Jesus and Mary were African and calling for unity against European domination. Her preaching ...

When Donald Trump came to Jerusalem, I put up the largest billboards in the nation declaring, “King Cyrus Is Alive.” They were reported on around the world. In Iran, one article even asked, “Is he ...

Netanyahu was not able to get the US Congress to vote against that agreement and he certainly didn’t have any leverage with Obama. While not a perfect agreement, it was decent and meant that Iran ...