Naftali Herz Imber is well-known as the author of Israel's national anthem Hatikvah. Yet the text went through numerous versions and perhaps even more "foun...

One of the most fascinating community of Jews is called the Karaites. The community likely began in 8th c. Babylon after an older son was passed over for le...

Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations is now streaming online on PBS. It looks at four different cases - the far right in the US (though the far-left also ha...

This past week as part of the Great Big Jewish Food Fest taking place online, I was privileged to watch the making of a unique Sephardi Jewish food tradition...

I'm really excited to see the 2 new documentaries on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where most Christians are marking the story of the crucifixion and res...

The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research released this year's statistical yearbook, just in time fo the Jerusalem Day holiday which begins tonight (for mo...

I'm really excited to see the new movie Abe, which is about a 12-year old boy trying to find a way to bring the warring members of his family together. The ...

Did you know that the tombs of Mordechai and Esther, the heroes of the Purim story, exist today? Well not for long, if some arsonists and extremists in Iran...

For the first time since the Crusader Period, Haram al-Sharif, "The Noble Sanctuary," (known to Jews and Christians as The Temple Mount) has been closed for ...

In the past 60 years, we have seen a remarkable shift in the attitudes of the Vatican towards the Jewish people. Jews were absolved of deicide in the 1962 S...

Starting tomorrow, May 19 and lasting until May 28, there will be an online Jewish food festival consisting of workshops, happy hours and cooking Shabbat din...

People always ask me: Kobi, as a tour guide of Israel, when is the best time to be in Israel. And I always respond: Israel Independence Day. There is nothing...

One of the greatest callings of the Jewish people was to be a light unto the nations. This means not only to hold ourselves to a high standard and try to ac...

In WWII, it is estimated that up to 1 million Soviet Jews fought in the Soviet Army against Nazi Germany with 200,000 known to have been killed in that war, ...

Despite the fact that most Israelis come from the Middle East, and European Jews were never really considered local (as opposed to "a people who dwells apart...