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Eliezer Avraham

Sep 20, 2026, 8:47 AM

October 7: The Courage That Rises When the World Falls

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An exploration of faith, identity, and the quiet resolve that emerged in the aftermath When the World Became Unrecognizable There are moments in Jewish history when the ground beneath us gives way, when the moral order collapses in an instant....

David Charles Pollack

Sep 19, 2026, 6:05 PM

Did Muhammad Fast on Yom Kippur?

Before Muslims had to fast during Ramadan, there was Ashura. Ashura falls on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year. Muhammad is said to have explained that fasting on Ashura atones for the sins of...

Jaime Kardontchik

Sep 19, 2026, 1:04 AM

Jews are dhimmis (II)

Dear Graduate: You are probably unfamiliar with the word “dhimmi”. For your information, an analogy will make it clear: “dhimmi”: The status accorded to the Jews in the Muslim countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East since the seventh century...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

The Kindertransport and the ‘Lost Train’ of 1945: Bergen-Belsen to Tröbitz

On 15th April 1945, Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Army. Only days before though between 6th-10th April 1945 3 transports left the concentration camp with around 7000 Jews on board. Some of them were children. In fact, some...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Austin Reid Albanese

Sep 18, 2026, 5:08 AM

In 1841, an American Jew called America “our Palestine”

In 1822, Jews in Philadelphia placed the Constitution of the United States inside the cornerstone of their new synagogue. Mikveh Israel, one of the country’s oldest Jewish congregations, was building on Cherry Street near Third. Alongside American coins and...

Mustapha Ezzarghani

Sep 17, 2026, 11:31 PM

King Mohammed VI, Moroccan Jewry, and the Road to September 16

In the preamble of the constitution Morocco adopted in 2011, one sentence carries more weight than most diplomatic accords. The kingdom's unity, it declares, is forged by the convergence of its Arab, Islamic, Amazigh and Saharan components and enriched...

Sep 17, 2026, 10:58 PM

The Palestinian Jesus: An Old Christian Libel

Husam Zomlot during an appearance at the Bradford Literature Festival in the United Kingdom. Credit: Screenshot/MEMRI TV.

On September 3, Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom, appeared at the Bradford Literature Festival in a wide-ranging conversation with former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf about Palestine, identity, history, diplomacy, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was...

Sep 17, 2026, 8:01 PM

Book Review – I Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parasha

Pirkei Avot 1:6 advises, “Acquire for yourself a friend.” In I Read This Over Shabbos: Reading Jewish History in the Parasha (Koren Publishers), Rabbi Dr. David Bashevkin shows that he has certainly taken that advice to heart. Throughout the book,...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:15 PM

We’ve Been Here Before

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We’ve been here before. A small state, led by incompetent leaders, some of whom see themselves as entitled to leadership, if not endowed with royalty, who believe they earned their exalted position for life, pressured by religious extremists, some...

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