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Music for a cause: Gil Shohat, Tali Ketzef to perform Hanukkah benefit concert
The duo will premiere one of their newest programs, featuring popular operatic arias alongside favorites associated with more recent composers and singers.
Parashat Toldot: Choosing Jacob's path to redemption
'My First Tanakh Stories': Bible stories for young kids and their grandparents - review
Dvar Haftarah: When a father’s silence becomes his son’s downfall
Parashat Chayei Sarah: The healing power of speech
Every person can act like the sun, spreading warmth and light and bringing healing to those around them. A welcoming countenance, a small smile, and genuine empathy can have amazing healing power.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson praises Israel’s official 'Biblical' Highway 60 designation
Highway 60 is one of Israel's major north-south transportation arteries, running along the West Bank and connecting a series of locations central to biblical history and Jewish heritage.
Brothers before the ballot - opinion
People hold their positions out of conviction and love for the country and our people. But maybe the more important question of this election is not what we disagree on but how we treat each other.
Parashat Lech Lecha: Having the courage to stand alone
Abraham’s willingness to stand alone would become a defining feature of our nation. As his descendants, we would desperately need that same strength.
Parashat Lech Lecha: There is no wisdom like that gained through experience
Abraham, our forefather, is commanded to journey to an unknown land, and God tells him, “that I will show you.” God’s light will illuminate the way.
Netanyahu built Israel’s military power, but undermined its security - opinion
Power is the capacity to strike, and Israel has it in abundance. Security is a society’s capacity to absorb a blow, hold together, and sustain itself. Power did not save Be’eri or Nir Oz.
Eighty years after Nuremberg, October 7 shows why evidence still matters - opinion
Reading the report, I found myself asking a question that initially seemed inappropriate: What, practically speaking, is all this documentation meant to accomplish?
Jonathan and David: When elections turn friends into enemies
In the weeks ahead, Israelis will argue fiercely about the election and the country’s future. Jews elsewhere will have their own arguments about Israel, politics, and the Jewish community's future.
Theological beliefs linked more strongly than church attendance to antisemitism in young Christians
The strongest predictor of antisemitic attitudes was belief that God’s promises to the Jewish people have ended, while men who believed God's covenant endures had lower antisemitic attitude scores.
October 7 and collective memory: Three years, 156 weeks, and five million Israeli flags - opinion
Since October 7, 4,375 churches have placed 1,200 Israeli flags on their front lawns to memorialize the victims, demonstrating that Hamas’s massacre also revealed who Israel’s friends are.