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Netanyahu built Israel’s military power, but undermined its security - opinion

Power is the capacity to strike, and Israel has it in abundance. Security is a society’s capacity to absorb a blow, hold together, and sustain itself. Power did not save Be’eri or Nir Oz.

A view of homes destroyed and burned in the Hamas October 7, 2023 massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, August 5, 2026
SMOKE AND FIRE rise from where a rocket fired from Gaza struck Ashkelon, on October 7, 2023.

Eighty years after Nuremberg, October 7 shows why evidence still matters - opinion

Let us ensure we do not let this election divide us. Pictured: Dismantling a sukkah in Ashdod, Oct. 5.

Jonathan and David: When elections turn friends into enemies

Picture taken on July 7, 2026 in Swiebodzin, western Poland, shows the statue of Jesus Christ measuring 36 m in height, six metres more than the famous landmark Jesus statue of Rio de Janeiro. The statue, called "Jesus Christ the King of the Universe" was completed in November 2010.

Theological beliefs linked more strongly than church attendance to antisemitism in young Christians


Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the serpent: Why their lies work - opinion

Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and others employ manipulation tactics that extend far beyond them.

 Conservative political commentator Candace Owens speaks during an event held by national conservative political movement 'Turning Point', in Detroit, Michigan, US, June, 14, 2024.

At Israel's biggest Bible study gathering, thousands turn to Tanakh for answers on politics

The event, founded initially 33 years ago by Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun as a summer professional development program for teachers, has grown into a major annual gathering that is open to the public.

Taking in a Tanach lecture, Alon Shvut.

Parashat Va'ethanan: The positive within the negative

The Ten Commandments are not an independent list of fundamental principles, but rather the nucleus from which the entire Torah unfolds - its genetic code.

Moses on Sinai (Le tables de Loi judaique), 1773. Artist Simon Julien.

Herzog College Bible festival connects ancient texts to modern Israel - preview

The multilingual festival combined lectures, online study, and historical tours, bringing Tanach to audiences in Israel and around the world.

THREE GENERATIONS learning together: Brondie Levine with daughter Nechama Weiss and granddaughter Shira Levine.

Parashat Devarim: Always relevant

The Torah remains unchanged, yet its message can be expressed anew in the language, challenges, and circumstances of every generation.

SEVENTY LANGUAGES?

What the Bible says about endangered species - opinion

Scripture helps shape how I see the world, so I turned to it after the Trump Administration finalized a rule narrowing protections under the Endangered Species Act.

A softshell turtle

Parashat Matot-Masei: Don’t borrow identity

Public debate has become louder, more bitter, and less capable of self-correction because opinions have hardened into identities.

IT ALL comes back to the question of identity.

Parashat Matot-Masei: Slow and steady

The most important movement is not always what is visible externally, but what takes place within a person.

EVERY STATION on the slow journey  plays an indispensable role.

'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review

The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.

Rare medieval Sefardi Torah scroll from the late 13th or early 14th century on display at ANU, Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.

Parashat Pinchas: A prophet for difficult times

The Three Weeks do not ask us to despair. They ask us to remember what we lost, why we lost it, and, above all, that God has never stopped remembering us.

Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall.