Evergreen

Israel's president reflects on the meaning behind journalist Daniel Pearl's last words.

Why this central part of the Torah is not in our daily liturgy.

The Yom Kippur War led to a fragile but lasting peace between Israel and Egypt.

"A democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back."

Jewish law on the proper treatment of prisoners of war

A surprise attack on a holy day in 1973.

The midrash rounds out the biblical figures Abraham and Sarah

Shavuot has no specific rituals because it is all about receiving God's Torah.

A new Jewish ritual for sending young people off to college.

Gleanings, from Kadesh to Nirtzah