For English speaking Jews, Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook (called in Israel HaRav) has been an elusive magnet. It is ...

Ever watch America’s Funniest Home Videos to laugh at all those people having all kinds of accidents? That’s Schadenfreude, a specific German word for this feeling. You feel a warm ...

I had said the trigger word – sirens. “No more air raid sirens.” Air raid sirens. Her super-fear. Mention of sirens triggered ...

If adopted by parliament, the updated list would include Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Crimean Tatar, Modern Greek, German, ...

Hanan Ayalti’s Yiddish novel "Boom and Chains," now in English, portrays the external and internal struggles of the Jewish ...

To avoid renewed war, the first phase of the president's plan must be followed up by tough U.S. pressure on both Israel and ...

Phase Two of the peace plan doesn’t stand a chance unless the president foregoes his tendency to claim victory and move on to the next photo op.

Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

On October 7 2023, Eli Sharabi was kidnapped from his home by Hamas terrorists. After being held for 491 days, mostly in a tunnel beneath Gaza, he was released in February of this year. Now he has ...

"Pundits" kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research ...

Trump is tasking moderate Arab leaders, along with Turkey, to ensure Hamas disarms, to set up a multinational peace force, and to pay for Gaza. He can't expect them to do their part if he doesn't ...