On July 19, Israel’s right-wing coalition government passed, by a narrow 62-55 margin, its controversial nation-state law, which declared Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people.” Scores of ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

Ginsburg was keenly aware of the Jewish immigrant experience and her own good fortune to be born on these shores. The Holocaust colored her perspective of the world and the law. “Our nation ...

The right to self-determination is the right of peoples to a state and the right of territorial integrity is the right of a state to its territory. Both are accepted rules of international law when ...

The NSW government has accused the state Liberals ... to weaken hate speech laws in NSW. That is not political leadership. That’s not the sort of support that the Jewish community in NSW and ...

Here we explore the answers to key questions, such as whether autopsies are permitted under Jewish law, when to sit the shiva mourning period and how to calculate a yahrzeit if the date of death ...

King Saul lost the monarchy because he was “rosh katan”, David succeeded him as King by virtue of his rare quality of “rosh ...

(JTA) – A federal judge in Iowa has blocked much of a state law forbidding ... no longer lists the title. Other Jewish books have also been affected by the law. “Maus,” Art Spiegelman ...

Hamas has released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been ...

In a new book, “Holiness and Society,” the Israeli scholar Ronen Shoval seeks to understand the philosophical implications of the phrase and its contemporary resonance.

The news often isn’t uplifting. Let’s look at the bright side of things for a moment... Information ...