The scroll of Esther seems historic, not just allegoric. It says very clearly that Haman wanted to kill and exterminate all Jews. He got permission from the Persian King to order the slaughter of all ...

Pro-immigrant groups warn that the controversy can not, and should not, be just about free speech rights on college campuses.

This paper is a call to Israelis and Palestinians to together create a Bi-National Commission on Trust Building. This should ...

This post is modified version of a keynote presentation at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul at the start of an excellent ...

All of this plays into a very scary feeling I have, leading into Parashat Zakhor. On the week that so many Jews recall ...

The Purim story is not one of clear right and wrong, writes Michael David Lukas — and Israel's war in Gaza makes confronting ...

Never before have the two Israeli communities between which I divide most of my time, the academic and the activist, been so ...

The statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office came minutes after the first phase ended, and as talks have begun on starting the second phase that's aimed at ending the war and seeing ...

Likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said he will find "ways and means" for Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Germany. Israel's Prime Minister is wanted by the International Criminal Court for ...