These women, by Balaam’s counsel, caused the Israelites to be unfaithful to the LORD in the matter of Peor, so that the ...

As part of the seduction the Midianite and Moabite women would induce the Israelite men to worship idols of Baal Peor when ...

Normally, Pinchas would have been guilty of murder and subject to execution. Yet God not only spares him — He rewards him ...

I suppose I may be accused of being something I am not because of what I have to say here, regarding a new Missouri law requiring schools to protect Jewish students specifically from antisemitic ...

As we conclude the book of Bamidbar (Numbers), we’re left with both victories in war and reminders of just how conditional progress can be—especially for women. At the end of last week’s parshat ...

Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”, Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, began on the night of 16 May 2025. Sometimes the names of military operations carry a message. Gideon was the biblical liberator of ...

When we first encounter Gideon, the fifth of the 12 leaders of Israel described in the book called Judges, he is definitely a man who is overwhelmed, even dominated, by fear. Gideon lived during that ...

It began as Operation Swords of Iron. And now, over a year and a half later, since Hamas’s invasion of Israel and massacre of 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, the operation beginning anew in Gaza is ...

Two weeks ago, we read in parashat Balak about the attempts of Balak, the king of Moab – a people that lived east of the land of Canaan (on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea) – to confront, through ...