Torah

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

|BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks after the La Libertad Avanza party won the midterm election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26, 2025.

Milei says Bible shows 'where woke-ism leads' in Davos, urges return to Judeo-Christian roots

In the closing section of his speech, Milei referenced Moses’s confrontation with Pharaoh and the final three plagues described in Parshat Bo: locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Statue of a mans head wearing headphones.

The high price of not listening: What Pharaoh teaches us about power and humility

Pharaoh ignored every warning until his nation collapsed. His mistake isn’t ancient, it’s painfully familiar today.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
The mask of Tutankhamun is projected during a digital exhibition in Bordeaux, France, in 2025.

Parashat Va'era: Between Pharaoh and Persia, pride before a fall

The Iranian regime, like Pharaoh, has long encouraged the belief that it is untouchable. Yet the protests reveal a profound rupture between the state and the society it purports to lead.

|ByMICHAEL FREUND

Parashat Ki Teitzei: Words are tearing us apart

Elul is upon us. In a few weeks, we will confess our sins of the body, heart, and mind. This year, let us focus on the sins of the tongue, for they shape the confused, divided world we inhabit.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025ByMOSHE TARAGIN
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS.

Parashat Ki Teitzei: The hidden enemy and the open enemy

In these days of mercy and forgiveness, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, it is fitting to engage in soul-searching regarding our honesty in financial matters

SEPTEMBER 5, 2025ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
The Torah reserves ‘abomination of the Lord’ precisely for this form of dishonesty.

Beyond the headlines: Brought together by a soul

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
Slichot at the Western Wall.

Elul: Facing ourselves, facing one another - opinion

Elul is a deep dive into ourselves, into the hidden recesses of who we are.

AUGUST 31, 2025ByMOSHE TARAGIN
ELUL IS a deep dive into ourselves.

Remembering Rabbi Berel Wein: A beloved Jewish storyteller - opinion

Working side by side with Rabbi Wein to reimagine his book ‘Triumph of Survival’ - and the insights that stayed with me.

AUGUST 30, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM
RABBI BEREL WEIN, z”l, director, The Destiny Foundation; with Ashley Lazarus, film director, Destiny Films.

Beyond the headlines: Taking care of yourself

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

AUGUST 27, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
An illustrative AI-generated image of a Torah scroll opened in an undisclosed location in outer space.

Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC services

Torah scrolls are treated with such reverence that on the rare occasions that they are dropped, it becomes news, at least in the Jewish media.

AUGUST 26, 2025ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, left, teaches a class in Jewish law at Maharat, the first yeshiva to ordain women to serve as Orthodox clergy.

A nation and a story: Israel claims its destiny without shame - opinion

We must never shrink from our story. We are both a people and a faith, bound together across time, building a state grounded in both.

AUGUST 23, 2025ByMOSHE TARAGIN
'Israel stands as a rare example of a nation unashamed of its identity as an ethnic state – a country with a story.'

Parashat Re'eh: Divine consolation, both intimate and universal

'The time for consolation is now, and the path to redemption lies before us.'

AUGUST 23, 2025ByMICHAEL FREUND
Zion’s foundations will be laid with sapphires, we are reassured.

Parashat Re'eh: The gift of mercy

This is our ancestral heritage, passed down through the generations, and rooted so deeply that it is part of our very nature.

AUGUST 22, 2025ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
COMPASSION & MERCY: Haredi soldiers from the IDF Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march after completing seven months of basic and advanced training, at the Western Wall, Aug. 6.