The law must never become a tool of power; it must be the limitation of power. Exactly this ancient biblical drama is playing out once again on the world political stage today.

Caught between an existential war of defense and internal radicalization, the Jewish state faces the question of how it can preserve both security and biblical-moral responsibility at the same time.

‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’ (Deuteronomy 8:3)

The coastal enclave does not exist in a vacuum; it is one node, albeit a vital one, in a network of extremism and terrorism that runs across the region.

In Norwegian television, Hamas rejects any responsibility for attacks on civilians, blames Israel for the events, and refuses disarmament.

The proper response to this war against a people is not to deflect it, but to fight it better.

Anyone who covers up the Iranian regime’s atrocities against its own people with silence or relativizations, while ritually defaming the only Jewish state in the world, has completely lost any moral compass.

Just moments ago, the people of Israel received the Ten Commandments directly from God’s revelation—and now the Bible is discussing laws about oxen and sheep.

After the mighty revelation at Mount Sinai, the weekly portion Mishpatim follows—translated as “ordinances” or “laws.”