Pharaoh’s comrades, unlike Ephron’s, do not flatter the likes of Abram. Pharaoh, unlike Ephron, does not speak in circles and circumlocutions. Pharaoh hardly speaks at all. His currency is violence.

C onsidering its prosaic nature, the ordinary onion garners its share of poetic prose. Take this line from Mark Kurlansky’s ...

W ith apologies to Ponce de Leon and plastic surgeons, I have discovered the real Fountain of Youth. It’s spending time with young people.

Checks and balances are what make a democracy work — and they’ll be tested in the coming weeks, as the Senate is asked to confirm president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. More than one has ...

“Look at yourself in the mirror! Shed your tribal attributes that are known to be odious to our countrymen.” — Walter Rathenau Four points about this odious and effective urging of German-speaking ...

W ASHINGTON — Nineteen Senate Democrats backed a failed attempt to block weapons shipments to Israel on Wednesday, Nov. 20, a ...

There were three impact sites in Nahariya, Hebrew media reported.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Prime Minister, and Isaac Herzog, Israel President, issued the following statements after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former ...

Cruz said that when he was first elected to the Senate 12 years ago, “there was a real bipartisan coalition in America in ...

Calling matzah balls “the supreme Jewish comfort food,” Joan Nathan, the matriarch of the Jewish food world, said pronounces herself skeptical of the new readymade options. She believes they are ...

This week the Torah introduces us to “Abraham our Father.” If Abraham is “our” father, the father of the entire Jewish people, he is my father. Having studied ...

Fifty years ago, Rabbi Goldberg started his journalistic career with high school buddy Dick Gould. Together, they published their own newspaper. One year later, their magazine, Tempo, was featured in ...