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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.

 GIL SHOHAT
'The original division of responsibilities could no longer be sustained.'

Parashat Toldot: Choosing Jacob's path to redemption

The story of Jonah, from Shira Greenspan and Rinal Gilboa's series of Bible stories for Jewish chidren.

'My First Tanakh Stories': Bible stories for young kids and their grandparents - review

When a father’s silence becomes his son’s downfall.

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.

Every person can act like the sun.

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.

This photograph shows construction work to widen Route 60 outside Ramallah.

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.

 THE KNESSET marks its 75th birthday

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.

AVRAHAM’S WILLINGNESS to stand alone would become a defining feature of our nation.

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.

LIFE’S TRIALS themselves are the light that a person must follow.

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.

A view of homes destroyed and burned in the Hamas October 7, 2023 massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, August 5, 2026

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?

SMOKE AND FIRE rise from where a rocket fired from Gaza struck Ashkelon, on October 7, 2023.

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.

Let us ensure we do not let this election divide us. Pictured: Dismantling a sukkah in Ashdod, Oct. 5.

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.

Picture taken on July 7, 2026 in Swiebodzin, western Poland, shows the statue of Jesus Christ measuring 36 m in height, six metres more than the famous landmark Jesus statue of Rio de Janeiro. The statue, called "Jesus Christ the King of the Universe" was completed in November 2010.

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.

IFCJ PRESIDENT Yael Eckstein is seen speaking at the Flags of Fellowship commemoration at the Banyas Church.