Jerusalem Controversy

Forty Israeli siblings who survived the Holocaust met the 92-year-old Greek woman who helped save their lives decades ago. The reunion took place Sunday at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel on Sunday in a once regular ritual that's been …

The story of the Flood stands at the center of this week’s Torah portion, with Noah himself the central character. The story of the Flood begins when in ancient times, humanity had deteriorated to such moral lows that murder, rape and stealing became acceptab…

All around the Jewish world, people dedicate the months of Elul and Tishrei to introspection and tshuva (repentance). This year, I would like to focus on the tshuva of the month of Heshvan, the tshuva of “after the High Holidays.” As we do every year, the Wes…

US President Donald Trump has hastily dispatched Vice President Mike Pence for urgent talks with Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan. These talks may have produced a 120-hour pause in the Turkish onslaught into the Kurdish areas, but it is too early to say wheth…

This week’s Torah portion, Noah, is the second portion of the Torah. Here, we transition from the universal story of creation to the historical story of the Jewish nation. The first part of the portion deals with the story of the flood. Humanity had deterior…

Daniel Gordis offers a succinct analysis of what he terms the “crumbling bonds” between Israel and America in his most recent book We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel. Gordis looks at the historical, political, religious and social dif…

Acclaimed retired soccer players from both Brazil and Israel played a friendly match in the Jewish state to promote coexistence. Some 28,000 fans saw Brazilian veterans beat their Israeli counterparts, 4-2, at the Shalom Game held Tuesday in the mixed Jewish…

Acclaimed retired football players from both Brazil and Israel played a friendly match in the Jewish state to promote coexistence. Some 28,000 fans saw Brazilian veterans beat their Israeli counterparts 4-2 at the Shalom Game held Tuesday in the mixed Jewish…

The heads of the Agudat Yisrael faction of the Ashkenazic-haredi UTJ party met Tuesday night in Jerusalem in order to discuss the political deadlock. According to them, there is a very real possibility that Israel will be forced to hold a third round of elec…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now the Diaspora affairs minister, a position that has been open since June when Naftali Bennett left the role. The ministry is the fourth that Netanyahu now controls, joining the Defense, Health and Social Affairs ministr…