The genocide in Gaza, backed by diaspora institutions, requires us to challenge the Jewish mainstream's embrace of a ...

It is fascinating that some of the most splendid prose in the Hebrew Bible emerges from the mouth of Balaam, a brilliant poet ...

Today is the 17 th Tammuz, traditionally a fast date commemorating a bevvy of tragedies which befell the Jewish people.

Bilaam is one of the most enigmatic villains in the Torah. He wasn’t a warmonger. He didn’t raise a sword against the ...

Israeli troops continue to operate in the Beit Hanoun area in the northern Strip, as well as in Khan Yunis in the south.The post IDF attacks 150 terror targets in ...

The story of Balaam and his talking donkey is a major problem for serious theologians and scholars of the Bible. If you are ...

The Dreyfus affair exposed deep-seated antisemitism in the republic, a major catalyst for the Zionist movement.The post France sets annual Dreyfus commemoration day appeared first on JNS.org.

A donkey that can talk is not an original invention for the Shrek movie; we are actually going to read about it in the ...

This week the IRS announced it would no longer apply the Johnson Amendment to houses of worship. This means that synagogues ...

Jewish community leaders are waiting nervously to find out whether hate preacher Wissam Haddad will be allowed to continue his anti-Semitic attacks, with the Federal Court to deliver a landmark ruling ...

In his best-known historical work, The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain, Benzion Netanyahu controversially claimed that the Inquisition was not only, or even primarily, aimed at ...

Heterosexism and cissexism are pervasive, and each of us, irrespective of our own identity and expression, stands at risk of ...