Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro challenged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newcomer socialist Democrat from the Bronx, to a debate last Wednesday. The conversation quickly devolved into discussions … more

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a rare speech last week on the overall strategic vision of the United States, 30 years after the Cold War ended. The speech didn’t receive much coverage … more

Elections in Israel are less than two months away, and so far the campaign has been dominated by two main stories. One is speculation about whether Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit … more

There was a time when I would only go out of my way to listen to speakers who were older and more experienced than I. Recently, however, I have changed my preferences and have begun to seek out … more

JTA’s editor in chief Andrew Silow-Carroll and opinion editor Laura E. Adkins share their thoughts on a July 27 New York Times article answering “some of the most difficult … more

This week’s essay is the introduction to the revised commentary on the Book of Genesis by Rabbi Ari Kahn titled “Explorations Expanded,” published by Kodesh Press. Rabbi Kahn … more

Three thousand years ago, King Solomon wrote in the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) that there is a time and a season for everything under the sun. “A time to sing, and a time to dance, a … more

It was perhaps the single greatest collective failure of leadership in the Torah. Ten of the men Moses sent to spy out the land came back with a report calculated to demoralize the … more

The Torah requires us to celebrate three major festivals — Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot — and to do so joyously. Our Sages instituted two additional festive holidays, Chanukah and … more

On the day when Kalman Gavriel invited me to his new boutique gallery, The Jerusalem Scribe, I was delighted to see tourists back in Jerusalem’s Old City after a two-year … more