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 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked US President Trump for providing munitions previously delayed by the Biden administration. These weapons will aid Israel against Iran and its militant allies.

Therefore, the International Criminal Court Indictment of Netanyahu is seen as illegitimate. Moral outrage is reserved for real human beings, not Amalek. That is why Trump is more concerned with ...

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government announced ... “the war against Amalek.” Over time, when the truth that the activist left had perceived already in mid-October ...

In a literary way, it could be said that when talking about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both meanings apply. We are all familiar with the strident “Just Not Bibi” campaign which has ...