Israeli food is delicious. It’s boldly flavored and its colors span the rainbow. But these days, while color is good, it’s comfort that many of us want. The future is uncertain; we hunger … more

You may know Michael Oren as a cable news commentator on Israel and the Middle East. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United States during Barack Obama’s first term, when he had the fraught … more

Any other day of the year would have been easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike Pompeo for a visit. The Secretary of State’s schedule for a whirlwind tour of … more

The late Holocaust scholar and survivor Professor Israel Gutman, a founder of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and … more

That old cliché about the media preferring a news cycle dominated by conflict rather than reconciliation has some merit when you look at the amount of attention received by the British … more

The common refrain heard from media pundits and left-wing critics of the Gulf kingdoms’ recognition of Israel is that it ignores the Palestinian Arabs. Here is how New York Times … more

Earlier this month, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government announced that PLO executive committee chairman Saeb Erekat has been hired as a senior fellow for the school’s Future of … more

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provoked outrage among a number of Jews. In the piece … more

The protective locked door had kept out the shooter. One year ago, that was the bright spot in the aftermath of the attempted synagogue shooting on Yom Kippur in Halle, a sleepy … more

Fear and trembling — those have been our primary religious emotions during the Yamim Nora’im, the Days of Awe when, facing divine judgment, we felt vulnerable, insecure, and anxious … more