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Citing Smotrich’s call to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state” and Ben-Gvir’s contention that his “rights in the Land of ...

For many Jews in the English-speaking diaspora who hold pro-Israel and pro-Zionist views, Haaretz has gained the reputation ...

Animals usually overcome fear through a combination of instinctive physical and behavioral responses, shifting from stillness ...

The Jewish people should never again have to live in fear on European soil. That was the meaning of “Never Again.” That is ...

Parshat Re’eh teaches that human choice has ramifications. Every action reverberates throughout history, with profound moral ...

A powerful conviction in a certain narrative can be so strong that it blinds people to reality. Even the most educated, ...

For Rav Kook, history itself is the long drama of Tohu and Tikkun. Every collapse of civilizations, every upheaval of nations ...

Iran’s occupying rulers are digging graves for memory itself.

Calls for annexation — be it Gaza or the territories, denying Palestinians human rights, mocking their legitimate desire for ...

War amplifies the tribal voice. It tells us: harden your hearts, circle tighter, erase compassion. And yet Torah whispers the opposite, later in the same parasha: “You shall not harden your heart or ...

Prophet Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests of banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur’an 2:124 & Genesis 9:9-21 ); and calling on ...