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If ritual observance is voluntary and all that counts is ethos, why not just drop the whole charade and just call anyone with an ethical perspective on life a Reform Jew?

Why didn't then Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak demand that all the footage shot by France 2 on that day be placed at Israel’s disposal to do a proper investigation?

Your daily dose of Hebrew.

For the record, Rashad Hussain is a nice guy.

The area around Rachel's Tomb has been fortified, cement barriers erected to protect those wishing to pray beside her grave.

The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.

True peace is something that evolves when neither side aims to destroy the other one.

There is a new group of zealots who have taken a cue from the price taggers. They refer to themselves as Torah taggers.

Little Heroes or 'Giborim Ktanim' pairs ordinary Israelis with mentally challenged children with the goal of helping such children to better fit into Israeli society.

Your daily dose of Hebrew.

You can't blame the French for wanting to minimize their made-in-Europe Islamic terror problem. The problem is with how reality keeps messing with comfortable theories.

What is really being gained by continuing to force Haredim to stay in the beis medrash full time via a draft that exempts Haredim?

The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.

The Guardian took the hideous claim that the IDF fired mercilessly at a young boy until he was dead at face value, without even a hint of journalistic skepticism.

Two people have reported snow in the late May-early June, though in both cases, it was hearsay.

It seems Russia has decided that the "strong horse" in the Middle East is Iran and the Shiites.

Ouni Abed Botrous Hadaddeen compares the Jordanian king to Yasser Arafat, claiming that Abdullah to is two faced.

If Shas does agree to allow a secular core curriculum in their schools, that will put Ashkenazi Haredi leaders between a rock and a hard place.

What Rav Soloveitchik said in 1974 is truer than ever: normative Judaism is on the defensive in the modern world.

Your weekly video dose of Hebrew.

The Ruth story demonstrates how all Jews should treat the strangers among us.

The Egyptian ambassador warned against allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount even under a time-share system.

A response to Ahmadinejad's vitriol from a Jew of Persian descent.

the title rabbi (or its equivalent) is more than about recognition of achievement.

By agreeing with said gangsters that ‘Palestine’ is a state, Google is in effect agreeing that the Jewish people do not have a legitimate state.

Your daily dose of Hebrew.

A Jewish withdrawal from East Jerusalem would make the situation in Sderot look like paradise.

The proposed budget harms the poor more than the rich.

The issue is not our obligation to listen to our rabbinic leaders. It is about whether we should listen to the rabbinic leaders of others.

Shmuel Katz and a former Mapai MK Eliezer Livneh coauthored a pamphlet in 1971 arguing against the appeasement of Palestinian terrorists.