After several nights in a bomb shelter — hearing the thundering sounds of the IDF’s anti-missile and anti-drone defense systems, and reading voraciously about every event (though not for the 24 hours ...

Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) is invested with three sanctities: 1) the sanctity of the mitzvah of yishuv ha’aretz (Settling the Land), which is a mitzvah equivalent to all the mitzvot. 2) ...

While reading Hallel (Psalms 113-118) recently, I was struck by how many of its phrases seemed to echo the story of the sea in the book of Jonah (chapters 1–2). At first glance, this might not be ...