Monthly Archives: March 2024
Throughout her career, novelist Charlotte Brontë drew on ‘Book of Esther’
The 19th-century English novelist Charlotte Brontë is best known for her 1847 novel Jane Eyre, which is a staple of many U.S. middle and high school curricula. A new journal article addresses a different side...
Israeli High Court OKs house demolition for terrorist who failed to kill
Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Wednesday sanctioned the demolition of a Jerusalem home belonging to a terrorist who shot and wounded two policemen on Oct. 12.
Khaled Abdel-Fattah, from the northern...
Biden is risking the Jewish vote
On April 7, 1992, then-Senator Joe Biden criticized those who interfered in Israel’s affairs.
He declared: “The absurd notion that publicly vilifying Israel will somehow change its policy; who in the hell do we think...
MIT turns away Dennis Ross but allows Hamas supporter to speak
Recent news concerning speakers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about Israel and Gaza has not generated attention or headlines outside of the school and its alumni. But these events should have. MIT has refused to host a...
Pew finds its highest rate of belief that role of religion is waning in...
An overwhelming majority of American adults think that the role of religion is contracting in public life, and a majority of the 80% who believe that are unhappy about the decline, according to new...
‘We need the joy’: Jews around the world gear up for Purim despite the...
More than 2,000 years ago, when the Jews of Persia triumphed over an existential threat, they celebrated by proclaiming a holiday: They gave charity, the Scroll of Esther recounts, sent each other presents of...
Religious women in territories armor up
Religious women living on the frontlines in Judea and Samaria are taking up arms to defend their homes, particularly after the Oct. 7 massacre.
Srugim, a news site catering to the religious Zionist community, reported...
450-plus Jews in entertainment industry condemn Glazer’s speech
More than 450 Jewish executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing the speech film director Jonathan Glazer gave at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 10 when accepting his Oscar for...
PM must act, says Ben-Gvir, accusing AG of double standard
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must tell Israel’s attorney general to cease acting in a partisan manner, including in her efforts to interfere with the appointment of senior police officials, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir...
Celebrity US chef feeding Gaza calls for ‘ceasefire, with hostages released on both sides’
José Andrés, the celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen who is donating food to Gazans, called on U.S. President Joe Biden to demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “stop killing children, targeting humanitarian...