The Israel Museum Jerusalem is home to one of the world’s largest collections of Chanukah lamps, with some 1,000 items from across the globe — from the Middle Ages to the present …
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12/13/23
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The Gaza Strip is a complex piece of land that has been at the center of disputes in the Land of Israel dating back thousands of years. Roots of the conflict that’s engulfing the roughly …
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Analysis by Troy O. Fritzhand
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11/1/23
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Considered by many the most influential secular Jewish poem of the twentieth century, “B’ir Haharegah (In the City of Slaughter).” was published in 1904 in the aftermath of the …
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The Jewish Star
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10/11/23
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This is an excerpt from a column originally published in May 2022.
In recent days, two voices from Ukraine have been calling out to me. Chaim Nachman Bialik had been a student …
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By Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz
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10/11/23
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This is the text of President Biden’s televised address on Tuesday afternoon.
There are moments in this life — and I mean this lierally — when pure unadulterated evil is …
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By President Joe Biden
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10/11/23
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This is the text of President Isaac Herzog’s address on Tuesday.
A s president of the State of Israel, I speak to you now from our capital city Jerusalem under the dark shadow of war, as …
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By President Isaac Herzog
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10/11/23
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The Oslo Accords, now 30 years old, began with great hopes but swiftly descended into a bloody stalemate of Palestinian terror, Israeli overtures for peace and more Palestinian terror.
If one …
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By Henry Kopel
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9/27/23
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Over three millennia ago, our great leader Moses addressed the people of Israel as they were about to enter the Promised Land. He said they would find there two mountains facing one another: Mount …
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9/27/23
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In his testimony before the Agranat Commission that investigated the Yom Kippur War, Col. Gabi Amir described the fateful and difficult hours of the fighting in the Sinai Peninsula as follows:
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By Isaac Herzog
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9/27/23
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There is an axiom in journalism that you never know when you’re going to do the one thing for which you will be remembered above all others. Few lives exemplify that lesson better than that of …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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9/27/23
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