Jews

Who was Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female leader?

Christians and Jews faced terrible persecution in Turkey during WWII

A Lament for War: Director Jasmin Dizdar on his Holocaust Film “The Chosen” and His Family History.

A state-enforced sexual establishment parallels the kind of religious establishment dissenters have long sought to dismantle, and for sound reasons.

Distinguishing between intentional persecution and national malfeasance is difficult for Egyptian Copts.

The Ordinaries’ statement is extraordinary, and not primarily for its reorientation away from a two-state solution toward one state.

ANTISEMITISM IS NOT just a Jewish, Christian, or American problem. It’s a global problem, and Christians must stand up to confront it. But the best way to confront antisemitism is not by fighting it as some would urge us to do. “Anti-antisemitism” is redundant and nonsensical. Forcing anyone to like the Jews will never work. 

There is a need to scrutinize and criticize the new nation-state law, but it is unfortunate that several aspects of the Latin Patriarchate’s statement are simply unproductive and even inflammatory.

Few would have estimated 70 years ago, let alone one thousand, that this week would arrive. On Monday, May 14, Israel celebrated the seventieth anniversary of becoming a nation. In light of this remarkable and unlikely reality, Christians are faced with the task of celebrating and interpreting this event against the backdrop of the last 70 years.