A hostage’s testimony and Parashat Yitro show that the Torah places values before territory.

One of the world’s most sacred religious sites is at risk of being “disfigured” by a luxury tourist resort, critics have warned. Egypt’s plan to redevelop the remote Mount Sinai, where God is said to ...

The haftarah for Parshat Yitro recounts the call to prophecy of Yeshayahu, a moment of initial contact with the Divine that is vivid, unsettling, and transformative. It parallels in many ways the ...

Whenever people are convinced that they are acting in the name of higher goals – especially when they believe they are ...

A non-Jewish acquaintance, who grew up knowing very few if any Jews, recently confided in me that he had been taught by his father to admire the Jewish people because of our reverence for and pursuit ...