Since the start of the war, Galatz (the army radio station) end their morning broadcast by naming one of the hostages and inviting a...

AT the start of the war one day I came home to find that my 7 year old had found a box and spent hours decorating it, writing a message...

בזכות נשים צדקניות ישראל נגאלו ישראל ממצרים Yes, in the righteous women’s merit we were redeemed. They are the women of faith, not...

When I went to visit the shiva of Amichai Oster ז"ל, the beloved son of Marcy Oster, one of my long term students, his fellow army unit...

Stephen Fry, one of Britain’s most beloved actors who had never been particularly vocal about his Jewish identity, spoke out against...

A father and a son. Two narratives. Two cases of complex identity development. One parallel narrative of liminal space. One occurs in...

Why the progressive liberal left isn't sympathetic to Israel's pain | Tanya White | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)

It’s become an iconic image – one that has lent itself over many years to artistic representation by some of the most renowned artists...

There is so much we can learn, at this moment, from Yitzchak's household that we read in this week's parsha. Yitzchaks household lives in...

Rabbi David Hartman expresses his definition of a religious ideal: “Become a religious person who can live with ambiguity, who can feel...

I’ve always found words cathartic. When I have been going through the worst periods in my life, I’ve written for myself, for others, for...

People Love Dead Jews - Bad Luck - We are Alive and Kicking | Tanya White | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)

We beat our chests and recite a long list of our most innocuous sins. Is this a healthy religious attitude? Are we nurturing a toxic...

It seems that humans, from their inception, are destined to struggle with the meaning of existence. We ‘clothe’ ourselves in many...

There are three fundamental principles of Judaism that are set out in this week’s parsha. 1. The idea of equality and shared...

Ki Tavo and Enlistment to the IDF: A Mother's Perspective | Tanya White | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)

One of the earliest post-Holocaust stories, “Yossl Rakover Speaks to God” by Zvi Kolitz, is a visceral and raw account of the ramblings...

וְהָיָה, כִּי יְבִיאֲךָ ה אֱלֹקיךָ, אֶל-הָאָרֶץ, אֲשֶׁר-אַתָּה בָא-שָׁמָּה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--וְנָתַתָּה אֶת-הַבְּרָכָה עַל-הַר גְּרִזִים,...

Dara Horn in her bestselling book “People Love Dead Jews” regales the reader with countless stories about the lives of dead Jews or...

What do we do when our reality is shaken to its very core? When the ground under our feet is destabilised to such a degree that we feel...