These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

The Jewish task is not to fear the real world but to enter and transform it, healing some of its wounds and bringing to ...

In discouraging aliyah to Israel, the spies did not have Emunah. In other matters, they did believe. They believed, and yet ...

In these trying times, many are searching for strength, clarity, and direction, this week’s Living Torah carries a message of ...

In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness — that true meaning arises in the balance between form and void, action ...

Is Torah so dry we can’t find a common topic to learn as one people—for the merit of our soldiers, our hostages, our collective future? We are the Jewish people, speaking a Jewish language, living in ...

( Gold from the Land of Israel, pp. 258-260. Adapted from Ein Eyah vol. I, p. 104, sent to Arutz Sheva by Rabbi Chanan ...

Yes, it is difficult living here. Yet is my immense privilege to share in the hardship of our fellow Jews in Israel and to ...

Young people raised in the Church, many of them once passionate believers, are now publicly questioning or walking away from ...

Rabbi Moishe Kievman Chabad Chayil The 3rd of Tamuz, this year on Sunday, June 29th, marks the 31st Hilula of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Known affectionately and simply ...

Condemnation is the cost of Jews’ survival, a low price compared with one more holocaust that anti-Zionists entice, no more ...

The Rogatchover Gaon emphasizes specifically that Eretz Yisrael is only acquired through tribulation (Brachot 5), noting how inappropriate it is for someone to expect to gain the fruits of the labor o ...