Tanakh

Parashat Hukat haftarah: The argument that persists

The conclusion is clear: a nation that attacks another in an attempt to annihilate it forfeits its claims to protection. Israel did not conquer out of ambition. It defended itself.

 IDF soldiers from the 146th Reserves Division begin operations in southern Lebanon.
Hodaya Cohen and Akiva Schreier during the World Tanach Quiz 2026.

Hodaya Cohen wins Israel's 78th Independence Day Bible World Quiz for Youth

3D scan of cylinder found in ancient city of Kish, Iraq, bearing inscriptions believed to have belonged to Nebuchadnezzar II, April 11, 2026.

Clay cylinders found in Iraq bear writings of Babylonian king who besieged Jerusalem, study reveals

VIEW OF snow on Mount Hermon in Syria, as seen from the northern Golan Heights, in Jan.

Beyond the Golan: The Israeli case for reclaiming southern Syria's Bashan - opinion


Water from the well: The seduction of beauty

This week’s Torah portion, Toldot, presents one of the many stories in Genesis dealing with the beauty of a woman and the resulting danger.

ISAAC’S SERVANT tying a bracelet on Rebekah’s arm in this 1775 work by Anglo-American history painter Benjamin West

Parashat Pinhas: Personal hope versus national hope

A true leader puts the nation’s needs ahead of his own and the nation’s hopes ahead of his personal ones.

A shepherd keeps watch over his grazing sheep in the Romanian mountain

More than the question of ‘un-Jewishing’ someone

In Hebrew, we use the word “tragedia” to describe drama like Antigone, based on human suffering.

In front of the burial society rabbi (Howard Metz) and her sister (Devorah Jaffe), the bereaved daughter (Avital Macales) angrily tears up a cemetery map showing the proposed location of her mother’s grave in a non-Jewish area.

King Balak may have existed, TAU researchers find

The Mesha Stele may have just proven the existence of King Balak from the Book of Numbers in the Old Testament!

The Mesha Stele

Miami police sergeant fired for throwing out Tanakh on video

Sgt. Roberto Destephan, a 13-year veteran of the force, had been suspended for the last two months over the cellphone video. He was fired on Thursday, the Miami Herald reported.

Miami

The reward for a ‘becoming expression’

Even after the horrible act of Lot’s daughters, the small difference in their characters was expressed in the way these nations were later treated.

‘THE FLIGHT of Lot and His Family from Sodom’ by 17th-century Flemish painter Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens

I Need To See The Picture

The Jerusalem Post

Muslims Need Not Fear Israel

The Jerusalem Post

The struggle against causeless hatred

If there is anything that we should do during these three weeks, it is to battle against Jewish disunity, against the lack of respect for others, against causeless hatred.

The Knesset building

Parashat Pinhas: A man of spirit

‘Moses, who led the nation devotedly through 40 years of wandering in the desert, is now being told that his role is over. He will die in the desert’

A desert in Israel (illustrative)