As we wait with bated breath for the next set of hostages to be released, what’s been unfolding is incomprehensible. We braced ourselves to receive the bodies of 10-month-old Kfir Bibas … more

Exactly seven months before their abduction on Simchat Torah, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were photographed getting ready to celebrate Purim — a particular favorite among children, since it involves … more

If you saw the video of Hamas’ screaming rabble of armed, masked fighters surrounding Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud as she was released to the International Red Cross last month, you were … more

The moment we had all been dreading came to pass on Feb. 20, as four coffins draped with Israeli flags traveled from the Gaza Strip to Israel in a convoy led by the Israel Defense Forces. Two of the … more

I remember the first time I read Samuel P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations” while pursuing my degree in international business relations. I was 23 and living in a country … more

As much as anything else, two little red-haired boys and their mother symbolized the barbaric cruelty of the Hamas assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The video of a terrified Shiri Bibas, … more

The Torah is comprised primarily of laws and narrative. Let us take a quick scan of Parshat Terumah to see where it fits in the scheme of the rest of the Torah. According to the Sefer HaChinukh, … more

S ometimes inspiration comes in the simplest of moments, like a good cup of coffee. In the fall of 2000, my unit was called up on special emergency orders (known as a Tzav Shmoneh ). I still recall … more

It was at a post-graduate seminar that I first became aware of the distinction many make between “religion” and “spirituality.” Members of the seminar were all PhDs in … more

Ein milim (there are no words). Yet our only way to communicate our disgust is with words, as inadequate as they are. While every “release” has been a sorry and sordid spectacle, … more