In a quiet room at Israel’s soon-to-be inaugurated October 7 Museum, Mosab Hassan Yousef — the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef who is known as “The Green Prince” … more

Several million people around the world have participated in pro-Hamas demonstrations since the Islamist organization’s atrocities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Nearly every major city … more

For as long as people have cared about the arts, the question about whether one’s personal foibles or even crimes are more important than their work has always bedeviled audiences and critics. … more

Sometimes your enemies inadvertently reveal what is most important and valuable to you. Pharaoh killed the male children born in his kingdom because he thought one would arise to threaten his … more

Are you into the TV show “American Idols?” Do you enjoy watching all that talent on television? What about other “idols?” In this week’s Torah reading, Re’eh, … more

Young Jewish students who are just beginning to study world history are often surprised to learn that early theorists of socialism and communism were Jews. Having been raised in essentially … more

Tucked away in this week’s sedra, almost as an aside in the course of explaining the law of shemittah (the year of “release” in which debts were cancelled), is one of … more

In Devarim 11:26 we read, “See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse.” Imagine standing before two clearly marked paths, one leading upward toward light and one fading into … more

Rabbi Berel Wein, a charismatic and eloquent Illinois-born spiritual leader and scholar, educator and historian, writer and orator who made aliyah in 1997, was niftar in Jerusalem on Saturday at the … more

Nearly two years after Capt. Amitai Tzvi Granot was killed fighting Hezbollah terrorists in the Galilee, his father, Rabbi Tamir Granot, officiated on Monday at the wedding in Caesarea of Amitai … more