September 2005, right after the summer of the Gush Katif “disengagement.” As the summer vacation came to an end, we...

My grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was invited a few years ago on Holocaust Memorial Day to tell her story at...

A friend who once worked at a Jerusalem bank branch recounted a random encounter between two bank employees, one a...

“If a person sees suffering coming upon him, he should examine his actions, as it says (Eicha 3:40): ‘Let us...

On the last day of 1897, just a few months after the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl’s The...

In his article “Between Isolation and Alienation” [Hebrew], Rabbi Pfeffer describes a troubling phenomenon of indifference to the current plight...

Distinguishing between the written Torah (the Tanach) and the Oral Torah (the Mishnah and Talmud) was a fundamental element of...

One day, perhaps during the Protective Edge campaign in 2014, one of my sons returned home from school, citing an...

No less than four policy drafts for recruiting Charedim, some longer and some short and terse, arrived on my desk...

The events of October 7 led many to declare a “collapse of preconceptions” – failings that left us open to...