It is more secure from threats than at any time since its founding. But the war in Gaza, and attacks on Iran and Lebanon, ...

The war was sparked by a complex mix of territorial disputes, mostly over the contested Shatt al-Arab waterway, a vital oil ...

There are no fewer than seven theatres of war in the world today which have invited more than our passing attention. I am ...

Or not lions at all. But regular breakable human beings undergoing outsized existential events on an ongoing basis that their regular hearts and minds are exhausted from. The shrieking and waning ...

Halakha and ethics: a case study.

The "Land of Israel" is barely mentioned in the Old Testament: the more common expression is the Land of Canaan. When it is mentioned, it does not include Jerusalem, Hebron, or Bethlehem. Biblical ...

Scientists have unveiled inscriptions which several hundred years old in the location where Jesus Christ ate with his ...

The kingdom of Israel was overthrown in ca. 722 BCE by the Neo-Assyrian empire, centred in what is now Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia), and Israel” ceased to be a geographic entity of the ancient Middle ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Biblical Israel was chosen to be the mediator between God and the nations. People were supposed to know God through the ...

In Genesis, Adam and Eve are told to multiply and be fruitful. But single people fill the Bible, and so do the childless.

Could this be a moment of divine judgment on Iran s leadership, paving the way for a new chapter for its people ...