Tag: Israel

David Polsky explores a passage in the Sifrei that is key to articulating a Halakahic position on withholding food as a military tactic.

In this poem, Bruce Black reflects on the differences between Sabbath preparations in the holy land and in diaspora.

Roy Pinchot responds to Zach Truboff's article decrying the ethical and spiritual costs of the war.

In this essay, Eileen Watts draws parallels between Daniel Deronda and the book of Exodus

  Aton M. Holzer The fifteenth of Av – among the most minor of minor festivals on the Jewish calendar – is marked in the diaspora...

As the war in Israel approaches its third year, Zach Truboff calls upon Israeli society and its friends abroad to confront the spiritual and moral cost of the violence.

The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.

In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel

Ethan Zadoff discusses what Israel education should look like post-October 7.

Drawing upon Jewish history and human anatomy, Shmuel Chaim Naiman demonstrates how the Land of Israel serves as a collective body for the collective Jewish soul.