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The Bad Samaritan

You can't understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help.Israel’s Indian Connection

The highest-ranking Indian official in a decade is about to visit Israel. His trip is another step in India's 20-year journey out of Third World socialism.Silent Majority

Everyone says young American Jews are increasingly hostile to Israel. But is it true? A new poll cautions us not to mistake a vocal minority for the majority.Sh’mot: What’s in a Name?

"These are the names of the children of Israel": Despite having designated them by name during their lifetimes, [Scripture] enumerates them again, posthumously, to indicate how beloved they were. (Rashi 1:1) While the traditional English title of Sh'mot is "Exodus," the word translates literally as "names." This presents us with the opportunity to explore the significance the Bible attaches to names, in general, and the meaning of one individual name, in particular.Churchill and State

Nearly 50 years after Winston Churchill's death, Israelis have founded a society in the British wartime leader's name and GOP politicians are pledging to restore his bust to the Oval Office. The Second Sex’s Third Blessing

A fifteenth-century prayer book replaces a problematic traditional blessing with a pro-woman variant.  So what?      Lay That Pistol Down

The world has never accepted Zionism's militarization of the Jew, and the creation of the psychologically transformative homo israelianus.The Adoption Solution

From Moses to Mordechai to the midrashic dictum that "he who brings up a child is to be called its father," Jewish tradition is firmly pro-adoption.