The latest developments in the Middle East, which have left commentators around the world puzzling over every statement and counter-statement, have had far greater philosophical significance than...

For the rest of the world, including most Jews, Aug. 9 is just another day on the calendar. It doesn’t have the resonance of 9/11 or Oct. 7. Unlike those dates that remain inextricably linked to...

Israel has not just become a pathologically unhinged obsession in the Western world. It’s also turning into a wedge issue that’s splitting Diaspora Jews from each other. Last week, New York City’s...

It is said that one day Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte heard voices of grief coming from inside a synagogue, where men and women, seated on the floor and observing Tisha B'Av, were mourning the...

During the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Israel Defense Forces deputy battalion commander Maj. Roi Klein threw himself on a grenade in the Southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, absorbing the blast with his...

America’s two major political parties were given an opportunity this week to show where they stood on the alliance with Israel and gave the nation a clear answer to the question. In a vote on a...