Avimelekh, king of Gerar, is a tragic figure. He is a king, but is very insecure. He thinks his position allows him to do things no civilian could get away with, but every time he gets called on his … more

G-d appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men were standing over against him; and … more

He was an old man, frail, tired, and bereaved. News of Hitler’s advancing army preoccupied him, and he was overwhelmed, if not broken, by the requests for advice he was receiving from hundreds of … more

One of the many challenging verses in our parasha, Vayera, concerns the nature of Yishmael’s behavior at the moment he is about to die of thirst: “And G-d heard kol ha’na’ar (the lad’s … more

The Israeli assassination of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander in the Gaza Strip removed what Israeli officials have called a “ticking time bomb” from the Gazan arena — a … more

Jewish and pro-Israel organizations condemned the rockets fired from Gaza into Israel on Tuesday, following Israel’s assassination of Palestinian Islamic Jihad senior leader Baha Abu al-Ata in … more

It’s all about keeping Shabbat. For 25 hours beginning at sundown this Friday, Nov. 15, as many as 1 million Jews from Nashville to Nairobi — and in more than 1,500 other cities around the … more

On Jan. 13, 1898, the French novelist Emile Zola published an open letter titled “J’Accuse!” in which he called out the anti-Semitism of the French government and France’s … more

In the never-ending uproar over President Donald Trump, his administration’s recent move to lift a ban on traditional Christian adoption agencies went relatively unremarked. Under President … more

The atmosphere on North American college campuses today is one in which anything that can be labeled, fairly or unfairly, hate speech or which might make virtually any group feel … more