After 1,481 days in captivity in Cuba, I initially found liberty bittersweet: my heart and mind had to catch up to my body.

The Torah tells us, “On the eighth day you shall hold a solemn gathering (‘Atzeret’),” and Rashi (based on the Gemara in ...

To many, President Trump’s actions are righteous and almost divine. President Donald Trump deserves special recognition for his Peace Plan that led to the return of 48 Jews, 20 of whom were still ...

Meanwhile, a new force is seizing the moral ground Junts abandoned. Sílvia Orriols, the iron-willed mayor of Ripoll—the very ...

Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...

In the Diaspora, Yizkor is recited on Shemini Atzeret, the day preceding Simchat Torah. But in Israel, where the two are ...

For the civilian population in Gaza, this deal is, of course, good and important news. Many aid supplies are also expected to ...

From Boycotts to Balance: How Narratives Can Shift Like South Africa’s [and What That Means for Israel] ...

The previous essay showed that in the 1400s, Africa was not a “dark continent” but a continent of light — a leader in knowledge, trade, and culture. Cities like Timbuktu rivaled Oxford and Cambridge ...

Palestinian rally.” But to anyone who remembers the footage of October 7, the burned homes, the mutilated families, the ...

For the past two years, the political class in the United States has been under immense pressure to distance itself from ...

But the fact is that while Trump’s 21-point peace plan is a spectacular deal for Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, it is in reality a ...