(RNS) — For many evangelicals, Israel is not just a sign of the End Times. It is also the homeland of a people they believe ...
(RNS) — Artists and designers say a new generation of Judaica is helping previously unaffiliated and less traditionally ...
Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people possess the right to live freely in their ancestral homeland, to shape their ...
Arabic language, customs, and identity became dominant through centuries of settlement, taxation pressures on non-converts, and social incentives that encouraged assimilation.
America's bond with Israel traces back to Puritan settlers who modeled their covenant on Hebrew scripture, predating the ...
As Israel’s actions continue to divide America’s Jewish communities nearly three years into the latest war in Gaza, a new ...
Over the past several years, I have made it a habit of asking as many teenagers attending Jewish day schools as I can, “Do you believe that G-d wrote the Torah?” Sadly, at least 30-50 percent aren’t ...
Attending a performance of Verdi’s opera Nabucco in Tel Aviv last week I was struck by the apparent reference to contemporary ...
In a recent essay, I interrogated collective responsibility as one of those dangerously predictable historical mechanisms ...