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Jul 16, 2018, 2:30 PM

Is it time to do away with Tisha B’Av?

The Israeli flag flutters in front of the Old City of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock on December 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas)

Israel has evolved into an economic and military superpower; what must we mourn?

Jul 16, 2018, 12:13 PM

Israel doesn't need a nation-state bill

David Ben-Gurion, flanked by the members of his provisional government, reads the Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on May 14, 1948 (Israel Government Press Office)

20% of Israel's population is not Jewish, and the democracy of the Declaration of Independence includes them

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Jul 16, 2018, 8:42 AM

The Watermelon War

Illustrative. Watermelon. (PublicDomainImages)

The battle between married couples everywhere: who will pick a sweet, delicious watermelon and who will choose a dud?

Jul 15, 2018, 11:28 PM

When summer travel is more than vacation

Why my children carried their Israeli flags around the world, and what they learned

Jul 13, 2018, 10:18 AM

Poland’s narrative amounts to Holocaust denial

An inscription reading 'They were flammable' and a Nazi swastika are seen in Jedwabne, Poland, September 1, 2011, on the monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne burned to death by their Polish neighbors in 1941. (AP/Michal Kosc/File)

It was the Poles who held the Jews on the scaffold, while the Nazis tightened the noose

Reuven Bobby Weinmann

Jul 13, 2018, 6:49 AM

Hating the sinner

Model of Herod's Jerusalem Temple © Shmuel Browns

Was the Temple destroyed because the Jews hated their obvious adversaries, instead of righteously loving them as themselves?

Irina Tsukerman

Jul 13, 2018, 6:44 AM

American Jewish organizations fail to combat anti-Semitism

Only aggressive, systematic, and consistent measures will make it clear that messing with the Jews is a bad plan

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Jul 12, 2018, 10:36 PM

What Zelophehad's daughters teach us about agunot

Illustrative. (Pixabay)

When humans can't figure out how to apply God's law, relying on principles of compassion and equality can't go wrong

Jul 12, 2018, 6:52 PM

Miles to go before I sleep (Matot-Masai 5778)

Illustrative. Snowy woods. (Pixabay)

If we didn't pause, we'd burn out, but we can't stop for long, for life is built from challenges and change

Jul 12, 2018, 3:21 PM

The SS officer was a doctor first

Small wonder the baby he delivered grew up to be a birth coach and labor companion

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