Our leaders need to understand that God’s laws trump ‘international law’

Why do people believe Iranian state media when, after an alleged airstrike on a girls’ school in Minab, they report rising casualty figures minute by minute—from 60 to 100 to as high as 180 deaths?

From the conceal to the reveal (in Hebrew, Esther sounds like the word ‘to be concealed’).

What can the Book of Esther teach us about the present?

When world history knocks and no one answers the door.

Life goes on – yet war seeps into daily routine and continues to affect the soul long after its official end.

We find ourselves in an emotionally schizophrenic situation, trying to fulfill the commandment of joy on Purim while a deadly war rages around us.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead. What raced through international security apparatuses as a shockwave has now been officially confirmed by Iranian state television: the ideological center of the regime has fallen.

Between biblical imagery and political reality – why the names of military operations say more than they first appear.