Israel

In my previous post, I described seven frightening trends of religious radicalism in Israel threatening women’s well-being and in some cases ...

A week after we celebrated the 66th anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel, I’ve been reflecting ...

Women being arrested for praying out loud at the Western Wall – it’s a story so shocking that it has managed to ...

So the Pope lost his kippah for a moment. I’ve been there. As a fellow bald man and kippah wearer ...

At a construction site at the Jerusalem bus station there is a multi-paneled chalkboard with space for people to fill ...

How can a few classes of kids in Atlanta brighten an entire hospital?The Davis Academy’s 4th grade team, interested in ...

In Iranian prison I didn’t hear the anti-Semitism that I anticipated. For months, I feared revealing my religion to guards. ...

This summer Lindsey Newman and Josh Rothstein are going to be leading the first free Taglit Birthright Israel trip with a focus ...

This post references various parts of the morning prayer services, or Shacharit. For an overview of the parts of that ...

How many emails have you gotten recently urging you to “take action” to get new, tougher sanctions imposed on Iran? ...

Jewish camp is everywhere, Terry Gross confirmed on NPR the other day. While interviewing filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, she ...

If Israel boycotted the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia next month would anyone really care? The games would go on ...