Originally designed for about 150 passengers, the Struma was retrofitted to carry almost 800 people, such that its sleeping quarters lacked space for the passengers to even sit up.

Enemy and treason are defined not just by actions, but by intent. Left-wing extremists, right-wing extremists, anti-Zionist charedim – none of these groups want the destruction of Israel, the murder ...

Popular songs on Israeli radio today – the songs which have become the anthems of this war – emanate from a deep spiritual place. They draw on Jewish themes, motifs, prayers, and texts. And young ...

Judaism is based on the fact that the year is cyclical; our holidays, Torah reading, and many seasonal aspects of our lives, especially in Israel. In years before this one, I never felt the way time ...

True, I’ve written about miracles in Israel’s wars, such as the sudden burst of rain during the War of Independence that bogged down Syrian tanks attacking an Orthodox kibbutz just as their ammunition ...

The suspect Ariane Tabatabai works as the director of the office of the Assistant to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for Special Operations and International Conflicts.

No one has ever stopped any of this. As for myself? I have nowhere to call home. My college was Bard, I am grateful that I was a scholarship kid there, but in all the years since I’ve graduated, my ...

I suppose in the back of all our minds was and is that we are still living in the Middle East – we still have to earn our place here. But nothing prepared me for October 7. Nothing.

As I left Efrat, my anxiety kicked in. At these moments, you ask yourself questions like: should I even be leaving my house right now? Having no information on where the missile came from, I had no se ...

We have also realized who we can trust and who our friends really are: despite its waffle-words, its incredibly poorly thought-out hostage-cease-fire plan and a temporary hold on some weapons, the Bid ...

Many people wait to review the parsha on Shabbos, and this is their undoing! Shabbos is at the end of the week and, if one gets busy or is too tired (a common occurrence), the week is over and its alr ...

After Shabbat ended the news started rolling in; the numbers of people murdered, kidnapped, the pictures, the videos. Then, as we all feared, the horror began to become personal.