Opinions

A satirical column mocks Sen. Chris Van Hollen and progressive Democrats with an absurd list of demands to pressure Israel.

A Likud campaign clip stages a son’s ‘coming out’ as a Bibi supporter, sparking the very indignation it cheerfully predicted.

Yael Eckstein on the Book of Ruth, the choice to receive Torah anew, and the Sinai values that bind Israel and a soon-250-year-old America.

Jonathan Tobin: Nicholas Kristof’s May 11 column accusing Israel of training dogs to rape Palestinians turned the Times into a blood-libel outlet.

Beneath Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center, on parking level four, a small city took root through three weeks of war: yoga, singles events, garden chairs.

As America turns 250 and Passover nears, the festival of freedom invites a deeper look at what freedom means in Hebrew tradition.

If the Exodus happened today, the writer is sure she’d never make it out of Egypt. A challah baker’s playful take on the Israelites’ packing list.

OU Kosher’s hotline handles 150 calls a day, double that before Pesach. Two rabbinic coordinators answer the year’s most common kashrut questions.

Last time the writer went to Carnegie Hall for a Jewish event, security turned her away and protesters spat outside. What brought her back.

Anat Mastor fled Iran as a teenager. Today she leads the perfusion team for an Israeli network that has done heart surgery on 8,000 children.