In many homes, Super Bowl Sunday — Feb. 13 — has taken on the characteristics of a holiday, right down to the rituals and foods associated with the big day. Despite the lingering … more

When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961 … more

From Washington to Berlin to Warsaw to Kyiv, everyone says that only Russian President Vladimir Putin knows what he plans to do with the 120,000 troops he has deployed … more

The chairman of Yad Vashem on Tuesday invited Whoopi Goldberg to visit the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to learn more about the causes of the Shoah. The invitation came on the heels of a … more

According to the annual report of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, published ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, anti-Semitism in 2021 was the highest … more

There is an important principle in Judaism, a source of hope and also one of the structuring principles of the Torah. It is the principle that G-d creates the cure before … more

It was a cold winter in 1991, the time of the great Gulf War. Scud missiles were falling upon towns and cities throughout the State of Israel. The city of Baltimore had a sister city … more

One of the best-known verses in our parsha, Terumah, is this: “And they shall make Me a sanctuary (v’asu li mikdash) and I will dwell amongst them (v’shachanti … more

Some lessons you learn the hard way, and they are never forgotten. In Infantry Officer’s training there is an obstacle course known as the “A’son Teva” (Freak of … more

It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored by the Jewish state and it received nearly universal support. Adopted … more