In the end, Rivka’s credo says it best: “I will fight antisemitism any day, anytime, anywhere—loud and proud.” That’s the ...

Even Jordan experienced violent conflicts with its Palestinian population: the most notable example is “Black September” in ...

Our sages taught that the suffering of animals is no trivial matter. It is a Torah commandment — tzaar baalei chayim. In tractate Berakhot, we learn that a person may not eat before feeding their ...

One does frequently hear extremist, and even some non-extremist Muslims, quote the Qur’anic verse: “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the ...

Still, it stands to reason, there are so many secrets in this world, so many twists and turns, that not even skilled writers could come up with these convoluted storylines. We tend to mistake our ...

Having spent much of my first decade in Germany digging into my family’s past, such projects are less likely to capture my ...

August 25, 2025 – 689 days since October 7 . When Netanyahu says “now only a full deal” to return all 50 hostages, what is he ...

For decades, the Islamic Republic has treated Canada as a soft playground for its ideological warfare. Here, there are no ...

From Rabbi Akiva—who lost his students in that plague—arose one who survived: Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, RASHBI, master of the ...

Between 1526 and the 1580s, slavery became fully institutionalized. Africans moved from being one labor source among many to the central pillar of Iberian colonization. Brazil’s sugar boom, Mexico’s ...

The AI industry has made a colossal wager. In 2024 alone, $57 billion flowed into cloud infrastructure designed to host massive language models 1 —a staggering 10-fold increase over the actual market ...

That is the heart of what we now call animal chaplaincy — spiritual accompaniment for animals, in life, in suffering, and in death. In ancient times, animals were brought as offerings in the Temple.