Before I can explain the well known Muslim Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir’s account of the two rabbi who protected the Ka’bah, I have to relate something about the Jews in Arabia in the five centuries ...

Soon after, the Torah says: “Not because you are more numerous than all the peoples did God desire you… for you are the fewest.” This is not a rebuke. It is a revelation. Israel is not defined by ...

Such an occupation, as planned by Netanyahu and his aides and servants – an occupation without any real purpose and entirely ...

Two nights hang over the life of Pinchas like twin eclipses: the night in Giv’ah when a woman was carved into twelve messages ...

Fourth, because Egypt deserves liberation from the illusion of perpetual enmity: This illusion was created and exploited by authority, but peoples should never remain hostage to transient political ...

Listening, when practiced deeply, becomes a form of healing. Not just for the speaker, but for the listener who dares to ...

That exchange is an adapted version of what appears in the Book of Judges ( Shoftim, Ch. 11 ). It took place around 1106 BCE ...

Globalized Intifada: The Islamic Jihad. I won’t go into the details of its scope and spread, but know this! It has spread ...

Excluding Israel from a trade fair does not advance peace, does not feed a single child in Gaza, and does not bring diplomacy ...

There’s no substitute for a quick and decisive victory. This is the only way to defeat the Hamas strategy of prolonging the ...

Maternal instinct is often framed as nature’s most effective survival algorithm: the evolutionary guarantee that offspring live long enough to reproduce. But stripped of hormones and biology, the ...

At first it was exciting, but the novelty faded fast. On one particularly taxing day, I sluggishly shuffled to my usual gate ...