What significant moment from Jewish history is celebrated on Shavuot? The giving of the Torah, right? Wrong. Unlike other holidays such as Pesach and Sukkot, the Torah does not assign a … more

As a neurologist, specializing in Alzheimer’s and related diseases, I often give talks on memory. I usually begin by pointing out the unique relationship of Jews to the concept of memory. … more

Bamidbar (which means “desert”) is usually read on the Shabbat before Shavuot. What is the connection between the desert and the Torah, the wilderness and G-d’s word? The … more

The path that led Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old college-educated Hispanic man with a professional career working for a medical organization, to embrace a belief in “Free Palestine” … more

It seems that brit milah is under attack again. Police in Antwerp, Belgium, raided the home of two Haredi mohels on May 14, confiscating their knives and demanding a list of the circumcisions … more

At the 2023 Palestine Book Awards ceremony, the winner of the “Counter Current Award” category was the volume “Imagining Palestine,” which concerns itself with a … more

Imagine someone saying that every country in the world, no matter how bloody or concocted their origins, has a right to exist except Israel. Then imagine that person saying it’s not … more

Sara Lefton, the chief development officer at the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, estimates that 6,000 more people — a total of 56,000 — marched at this year’s Walk with Israel … more

In response to former President Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, the chief of hematology/oncology at Episcopal Health Services’ St. John’s … more

On the blood-soaked morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamid Abu Ar’ar was driving from his home in a Bedouin town in the Negev with his pregnant wife, Fatma, their seven-month-old baby and a coworker. … more