As we approach Purim and take our annual look at its exciting tale, we meet the recently-exiled Jewish nation feeling out of sorts and unwanted,

I was introduced to the fine art of Purim spoofs back in the late ‘90s when I was on the staff of the YU Commentator.

In response to the U.S. State Department’s terrorist designation reversal, the rebels escalated attacks on civilian targets in Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration warned Yemen’s

His strong words about human rights are welcome. Now we’ll see if he means them when it comes to one of the main offenders. By

Republicans’ disinterest in ostracizing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an extremist who proudly peddles anti-Semitic conspiracies, is devastating for Jewish conservatives. Despite all they disliked about

Though their ideologies were threatening to Orthodoxy many, many decades ago, that is no longer the case. In June, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, an Orthodox religious-Zionist

Confronted with the challenges of our lifetime, we owe Chuck Schumer our gratitude. It was a year ago. The Jewish community had barely passed the

He and his wife have been warned never to return to New York. He’s been mocked and demonized, as well as blamed for every bad

News that the 23rd Knesset is about to dissolve, plunging Israel into its fourth elections in two years, came as a shock to no one.

History can be so inconvenient for people with agendas, so they just rewrite it. But in Israel, archaeology trumps the lies. (This essay originally appeared

This Chanukah we must learn to celebrate the gift of a closed door. Yeshayahu (26:20) said: “Go my people, come into your chambers and close

President Donald Trump’s policies in the Middle East contributed significantly to changes in the rules of the game in the region, both in the Palestinian