How group-psychology status seeking and quasi-religious fervor make anti-Israel activism resistant to logic, evidence, and ...

What may be surprising to many of my readers is that Israelis and Palestinians say the same thing about each other – almost ...

From tefillin pop-ups to Shabbat candle lightings, many Israelis -- including pop stars and former hostages -- have ...

(RNS) — It was an amazing day in the life of a democratic country. (RNS) — In Israel Sunday (Aug. 17), as many as 500,000 people took to the streets — the per capita equivalent of 34 million U.S.

The killing of 14-year-old Yosef Eisenthal, who was run over by a bus during an anti-recruitment protest in an Orthodox ...

One of the most damaging confusions in Israel’s current public debate is the assumption that religious moral seriousness and ...

For 40 years, Christian Zionism was a powerful force in American politics. A new generation on the right is taking cues from ...

Jews in Israel have a take-it-or-leave-it choice in religion: be either completely Orthodox or thoroughly secular. Consequently, about one-third observe only the high holidays and another third ...

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges ...

Violence has once again broken out in fractured Syria between forces allied with the new Islamist regime and fighters from one of the country's religious minorities. Dozens of members of the Druze ...

Israel seems to be at war with itself. For two weeks the Hebrew media have been dominated by street clashes between Jews arguing viciously over such matters as sleeve length and bus seating, which in ...