At last night’s ceremony at the Kotel in memory of the fallen soldiers, the camera repeatedly flashed to the flag waving in the wind as if it represented everything we were mourning that day. In man ...

Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen plans to launch an independent political party amid changing Israeli public sentiment ...

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been to Israel, but this last trip – my first UIA mission – was unlike anything I’ve ...

In 1654 − more than a century before the Declaration of Independence − 23 Jewish refugees fleeing the Inquisition in Brazil arrived on the docks of what is now Lower Manhattan. Trunks in hand, dreams ...

In a world full of noise, Shavuot asks us to be quiet. To stop schlepping the burden of the broken for a moment and let the ...

Some will argue that we should reconsider staying up all night if it will adversely impact the rest of our Yom Tov, including the fulfillment of other holiday mitzvos. While the logical argument ...

Yom-e-Takbeer – the “Day of Greatness.” By any measure meaningful to its people, it absolutely was. The spring of 1998 was not merely defined by the gathering summer heat; it was choked with ...

Now, decades later, I write these words with a heavy heart. Just this morning—on Yom Yerushalayim, the very day we celebrate the miraculous reunification of our eternal capital—I stood in ...

Later that evening, Matisyahu performed. The audience sang and danced. It felt like Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut had converged into one surreal night. But something felt different.

OTTAWA — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Canada, the United Kingdom and France of giving Hamas “a huge prize” by threatening to take action against Israel over the humanitarian ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual ceremony at the eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual ceremony at the eve of Israel s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem ...