(JTA) — Whether to extend military conscription to haredi men, a longstanding question fueling political tensions in Israel, has boiled over since Hamas launched the current war with Israel with its deadly raids on Oct. 7, 2023.
(JTA) — When the final two words of a television pilot are “a shiksa,” delivered with unmistakable disdain by a Jewish mother, you know you’re in for something different.
For the past two years, “Nobody Wants This” has...
(JNS.org) – It didn’t take long. Mayor Zohran Mamdani invoked it in New York with the slogan “Globalize the intifada.” But it is everywhere now. It took just three years, beginning on Oct. 7, 2023. What was...
(JNS.org) – This is a moment in Jewish history when scholars, journalists, historians, community leaders and ordinary Jews are all seeking to understand what has been happening to them. Since the Hamas-led Palestinian-Arab terror attacks on Israeli...
Sunday we removed the majority of our synagogue’s Torah scrolls from the aron hakodesh (ark) and danced with vigor, purpose and unabashed joy for the holiday of Simchat Torah.
(JNS) – On Monday, Britain’s foreign secretary Ed Miliband delivered a diatribe against Israel, accusing it of ethnic cleansing and war crimes, and vowing to punish it for the crime of allowing Jews to “settle” in their...
We live in an era in which fashionable opinion holds it to be an unquestioned truth that biological gender must be considered fluid and changeable, but racial and ethnic identity is not. That’s more a function...
(JNS.org) – According to many American as well as some Israeli pundits, the marked decline in Israel’s popularity can be primarily attributed to one man. Those who cite the many polls that document the shrinking support...
When I was a little boy, I read the propaganda distributed in the classroom. I watched the films and TV shows the teachers showed us and, like most of my classmates, I believed what they said.
