B"H After 1492, Portugal absorbed the bulk of the Jewish People who had been expelled from Spain. The most famous of the new arrivals was arguably Rabbi Yitzchak Aboab. In the sixteenth century,...

Included in Title III of the Special Section of the Penal Code (“On crimes against cultural identity and personal integrity”), Article 240, under the heading “Discrimination and incitement to hate and...

B"H In the weekly portion of Tazria-Metsora, The Bible deals with different ways of becoming impure and the rules to follow to return to the state of purity. One of the cases causing impurity is...

In the world of “identity politics”, the Jews are the only ones who do not appear on the radar. This perplexity is formulated by David Baddiel in Jews Don’t Count: How Identity Politics Fails One...

The years of World War II became a huge tragedy for the Jewish population of Europe. Over many years of planned destruction, millions of Jews were killed. The Shoah is one of the worst tragedies of...

As United Nations Holocaust Memorial Day approaches later this month it is an occasion to pause and reflect not only on the terrible events which will forever scar our history but also how those...