Tisha B’Av is the one day on the Jewish calendar when the topic of the unrestrained hatred of other Jews (sinat khinam) should be central; because our sages say that both Jerusalem and the Second ...

In short, it’s no surprise that appeasement to the more radicalized edges of French society has taken the form of recognizing ...

Last Shabbat, we concluded the Book of Bamidbar (“Numbers”)—literally In the Wilderness. Fittingly, both the opening and ...

As David was putting him to bed, he turned to his father and said, in a small voice, “I miss you Abba.” Thinking of all the ...

The Cathars appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, their origins something of a mystery though there is reason to ...

This Tisha B’Av, let us mourn wisely, not with passive lament, but with active resolve. The survival of the Third Jewish ...

Early in the story, as a dreaming Alice begins falling, down and down, deeper underground, she wonders whether the fall will ...

Crash was selficating, that is, exhibiting cognitive inflexibility toward our play, experiencing us as sabotaging what he ...

The gaunt appearance of the little boy was quickly attributed to lack of food resulting in starvation and death among population of Gaza, especially small children. This became a great fodder for ...

It occurred to me in my long-ago youth that, although my parents named me Deborah after an aunt of my father’s, nothing to do ...

Along with recognition of the State of Palestine, it is time to adopt a new political slogan offered by the Alliance for Two ...

This is not to belittle all oppressed peoples – far from it. There exist, in this wide and weary world, actual communities ...