A poll released in November by the Jewish People Policy Institute found that 27% of Israelis have increased their observance ...

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

We should value democracy, safeguard it within Israeli society, and participate actively wherever we reside, cherishing the ...

We sit with Adam Ferziger to explore how liberal and moderate forms of Judaism, forged in North America, took root in Israel ...

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

(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.

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

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 ...

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 ...