Grenade! Grenade! The very mention of this word can send shudders down the spine of even the most battle hardened. The instinct is to run. However, on the first of Av in 2006, one brave … more

First it was July 1, then it was August, but we still don’t know for sure when individual tourists will finally be allowed back into Israel as Delta and other emerging variants continue their … more

It is an experience common to all freshmen. One comes to a new campus, knows no one, and tries to orient himself by identifying the senior students who seem to have prestige. Then, he tries to … more

Why is there no peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Last week, the US State Department criticized Israel for destroying a terrorist’s home—an action the State Department … more

My mother was part of one of 97 Jewish families in Sheikh Jarrah in the early 1990s, but the Jewish roots there go back much further. As the Sheikh Jarrah case awaits the court’s … more

It’s been three years since Hanna and Shamshy Schlager traded their home in Kew Gardens Hills for a new one in Modi’in, Israel. It’s been a good three years, they’ll tell … more

This Sunday’s Orthodox Union Tisha B’Av program will focus on contemporary tragedies affecting the Jewish people as well as the destruction of the Temples and other calamities throughout … more

About a quarter of American Jewish voters view Israel as an apartheid state, according to a new survey. The poll, conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute from June 28 to July 1, asked … more

On July 5, Ethiopia announced that it had begun the next stage of filling the massive Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir. The parties involved—Ethiopia and the downstream nations … more

As I sit down to write this week’s column, I’m thinking about what I will eat before and after the fast (I’d rather not think about the … more