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Anti-vaxxers Wanted to Turn Their Backs on Society. COVID Was Just an Excuse

In Ukraine, the Liberal World Order Is Being Redrawn

Don't Want to Vaccinate? Fine, but You Have to Accept the Price

Man Against God: What Explains the Rise of Atheism?

Israel Is on Its Way to Become a Country of City-states

“Conversion on the Way to Damascus,” by Caravaggio (1601).

How the Jews Invented the Goy

A group of Orthodox Jews pray around the holy Jewish sites of Uman, Ukraine.

In Israel, a New Consensus on What Being Jewish Really Means

The Unite the Right rally of right-wing extremists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. “Jews will not replace us,” the marchers chanted.

The Far Right's Murderous Bible

Arye Dery campaigning for his Shas party.

Why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Prefer the Right

A cyclist passes Hasidic Jews outside of a synagogue on Bedford Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Aug. 13, 2013.

How Christians Invented 'Judaism' How Christians Invented 'Judaism,' According to a Top Talmud Scholar

A ceremony reenacting the biblical Passover sacrifice in the old city of Jerusalem, April 15, 2019.

Why Israel Will Never Be Governed by Jewish Religious Law

There Is Somewhere Else Where Israelis Could Go

Independence Day in Tel Aviv.

How the New Israeli Judaism Was Born

Hassan Joulani and Dean Issacharoff after Joulani was arrested in Hebron in 2014.

Israel's Breaking the Silence Dybbuk

Children in the West Bank settlement of Elkana in 1979.

The Rise and Fall of Zionism as a Religion The Movement That Saw Israeli Settlements as Redemption for Jews and the World

File photo: MK Bezalel Smotrich at the illegal Amona outpost in the West Bank, February 1, 2017.

Why Religious Zionism Is Growing Darker

Israeli soldiers drive military vehicles past a Palestinian man during a military exercise near the West Bank village of Aqraba, east of Nablus, on April 4, 2017.

The Israeli Occupation Puts an Ironic Twist on Passover Passover: The Irony of Celebrating Liberty While the Israeli Occupation Persists

Secular and religious kids on a playground in Mazkeret Batya.

Rogel Alpher Is Also a Ritual

Hilltop youth dance during a march from Nablus to Jericho in 2010.

What's Driving Israel's Radical Settler Youth to Rebel?

A Syrian boy, 7, waits to board a train in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015.

Where's the Jewish Morality? Where's the Jewish Morality in Decision to Shun Syrian Refugees?

Engraving by Ephraim Moshe Lilien, made for the 5th Zionist Congress, in Basel, in 1901. The inscription, from a prayer, reads: 'May our eyes behold the return in mercy to Zion.'

Inherit the Wind Why Is Religion Awakening in Secular Israel, India and Algeria?

Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot).

Parashat Pinchas / When the Dead Inherit From the Living

Settlers protesting the evacuation of a West Bank outpost.

The Disaster Judaism Won’t Survive The Disaster That Judaism Won’t Survive

Right-wing activists at Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount and the End of Zionism

The Temple Mount.

Beware: The End Is Near Why Rebuilding the Temple Would Be the End of Judaism as We Know It

Judaism: A religion or a soft drink?

Assembly-line Jewish Conversion

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community arrive at a camp near the Syria-Iraq border, August 9, 2014.

How Israel Can Help the Yazidis of Iraq

Boombamela Festival, 2003.

The Shift From God-centered to Human-centered

Ultra-Orthodox Jews symbolically casting off their sins into the sea in the Tashlich ceremony on Rosh Hashanah, 2013.

Can Judaism Replace Therapy?

Illustration by Hila Peleg.

Jewish Advice, in Spirit of Capitalism Jewish Advice, in the Spirit of Capitalism

Israeli wedding

Read the Fine Print |

Marriage Reform: No You Don't Marriage Reform Law Could Land Bride, Groom and Rabbi in Jail for Two Years

A cow.

What's Really Wrong With Eating Animals On Suffering and Pleasure: What's Really Wrong With Eating Animals

Tel Aviv's gay pride parade. The sexual act has essentially become a sexual identity.

Sex and 21st Century Religious Zionism Sex and Religious Zionism in the 21st Century

Members of the Eagles’ Wings global missional community in Jerusalem, Sukkot, 2011.

Jesus, the Temple and the Earth's End Cross Questioning: Why Do Many Christians Believe Jesus Will Appear After Jews Rebuild the Temple?

Women's prayer.

A Judaism That Trades Tribalism for Culture A New Type of Judaism

ICYMI

The Unbearable Conceit of False Comparisons Between Israel and America

No Israeli Criminal Probe Into Al Jazeera Reporter’s Death

How Israel Destroyed Old Tiberias How Israel Destroyed One of the World's Most Beautiful Ancient Cities

Republicans Slam 'anti-Israel' White House Press Secretary Over AIPAC Boycott Republicans Slam New White House Press Secretary as 'anti-Israel' Over Support for AIPAC Boycott

Israeli Police Violence at Al Jazeera Journalist's Funeral Reveals a Deeper Problem

What Binds American White Supremacists and Israel's Assault on Palestinians What Binds American White Supremacists and Israel's Brutal Assault on Palestinians