It all started with a music festival in southern Israel where peace-loving teenagers spent the night under the stars and awoke to barbarians wishing them their final good morning. What occurred … more

The New York Times committed an act of journalism recently, and many of its readers — and its staff — lost their minds. It reported the fact that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic … more

I remember, as a high school student, hearing our rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, relate one of the questions he used to ask when interviewing prospective rebbeim for our high school. Amidst … more

Frustration. Disillusionment. But also insight and a lifelong intellectual perspective. That is how I would describe the experience I am about to share with you. It started with Fyodor … more

About a year ago, I penned a column focused on the famous words from this week’s parsha, Balak, “am levadad yishkon (a people that dwell apart or in solitude)” (Bamidbar 23:9), … more

One summer morning, I had fun with my sons setting up a lemonade stand. We got the lemons, made a sign, bought the sugar and cups. They excitedly ran up to people walking by, asking if they wanted to … more

Of the many things Israel does well, fighting the narrative war is generally not considered among them. The country’s response to international criticism, both broad and specific, is often … more

The year is 1933. Two Jews are sitting in a Viennese coffee house, reading the news. One is reading the local Jewish paper, the other the notoriously antisemitic publication Der Stürmer. … more

A bicycle is more than just a means of transportation. Adva Sharvit co-founded Hamaslul with her husband, Karmy Shirby, to promote the use of bicycles as an educational vehicle and to explore … more

During the Iranian missile attacks that rocked Israel in the second half of June, few stories captured the resilience of the Israeli spirit like the one that occurred at the Weizmann Institute of … more