A person born in Puerto Rico can run for president of the United States. This should not be a recurring national puzzle. It ...

The polling data points to a clear conclusion: the future of U.S.–Israel relations will depend not on messaging or public ...

Gulf states and Israel may welcome Iran’s weakening, but retaliation, instability, and uncertainty threaten to undermine any ...

As I asked the Lord what it meant, I heard the famous words, “Help is on the way,” but with the addition “not by might, nor ...

It is all very elevated, until one remembers that politics still happens in countries, not in seminar rooms. British politics ...

Our last goodbye was too short. He had fallen again just the day before, and I had to go to him. What could I say or do but ...

Everything changed with the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. These agreements were presented as a path to peace. Israel and the PLO ...

From the blog of Grant Arthur Gochin at The Times of Israel ...

Iraq’s Iran-backed militias and Yemen’s Houthis — reveals organizations that have not collapsed, have not gone silent, and in the case of the Iraqi factions have escalated at a tempo that exceeds any ...

This essay continues my fascination with Franz Kafka’s essay, A Report to the Academy, as a springboard for how an LLM might be compared to Red Peter in Kafka’s essay. There will be, of course, a next ...

The first parsha of Vayikra (also called Vayikra) introduce the system of sacrifices, or korbanot. The Hebrew word for sacrifice, korban (קרבן), comes from the root ק־ר־ב, meaning “to come near.” A ...

The monument overwrites that memory with a cleaner one. In response, a group of citizens created an unofficial counter‑memorial, the “Living Memorial,” in front of it: photographs of murdered Jews, ...