From school campuses to public protests, tensions surrounding the longstanding conflict in the Middle East have escalated since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the Jewish nation’s ensuing ...

Rabbi Menachem Creditor wishes he’d never had to publish this book. And he hopes he won’t have to edit any more like it in the future. In the introduction to Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Poems, and ...

“Am Yisrael Chai” literally stands for “the people of Israel live.” It’s a slogan of Jewish continuity and resilience frequently invoked in moments of communal hardship. Six decades ago, this rallying ...

Zionism is the modern enactment of Hanukkah’s assertion of the right to Jewish independence, and the necessity of the Jewish state even for Jews outside of Israel. The deep Zionism of the Hanukkah ...