Op-Eds

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sjEXomjpXPU Lest any Jew forgets – because of all the violence directed at us, the hatred, the incitement to kill, the vile words, the missiles, the rockets, the knives, the rocks, the deafening silence of...

Publications, etudes ou articles divers concernant les religions, la litterature, la psychologie, la philosophie, les Arts, etc... Aventures et mésaventures de mes prénoms Haïm, un prénom hébreu ou Comment s’en débarrasser Haïm -Vidal SEPHIHA Professeur émérite(Sorbonne Nouvelle)Né à...

The House of Israel has a one-room synagogue and a miniature Torah that sits in a special wooden box. All work stops on Shabbat, the boys are circumcised a week after birth, and the...

Everyone is familiar with the Hanukkah story of the outnumbered Maccabees who defeated the heavily armed Greek forces and then rededicated the Temple with sacred oil that miraculously lasted for eight days. Less well-known, however,...

Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has announced that six faith leaders will take part in his swearing-in ceremony by offering prayers or delivering readings. Among them are Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the...

The reputation of Israeli army officers as eminent tactics expert or clever strategists, not always corresponds to the military rank on his shoulders or the glittering medals that look in his chest. The history...

Like a number of other ethnic groups in the Middle East, such as the Kurds, the Druze live in several different countries, separated by borders drawn after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in...

Nótese que en esta ocasión nos referimos a Ladino, porque son textos hebreos -litúrgicos- escritos en letras hebreas pero con ortografía en djudeo-espanyol para que la gente que no sabe hebreo lo pueda leer. The congregants complained...

Perhaps it is since the Enlightenment that the concept of Individualism has permeated so much of Western society and later industrialized non-Western societies. Once one believes in the importance of the individual and at...

Jorge Castaneda, Mexican former Foreign Minister, tells Fareed how Mexico is receiving Donald Trump’s controversial comments.