Before the Torah returns to describing the work of building the Tabernacle, it first reminds us of the six days of labor and the commandment of Shabbat. The Torah says: Moses gathered the entire ...

Make no mistake. Generally, the Jews are even more deeply steeped in their ancient history than their Abrahamic siblings, Christians or Muslims. The Old Testament has, for centuries, been their ...

Still on the eastern side of the Egyptian frontier, the desert maintains the rationale of borders: streets narrowing traffic, lakes retarding it, castles guarding it. In such landscapes, archaeology ...

It is hard to think of an old narrative that resonates in the contemporary imagination like the Exodus-a road to be travelled by fear, toil and identity. The debate has long been bearded at a point ...

The Belgian government has clashed with the US after Donald Trump's ambassador accused Brussels of antisemitism over its laws regulating circumcision. The United States' ambassador to Belgium has met ...

The conversation came amid rumours that Belgium may look to ban circumcision, which reignited after a public argument between the US ambassador to Belgium, Bill White, and Deputy PM Maxime Prévot. “If ...

As far as the French are concerned, the case is now closed. The US ambassador to Paris, Charles Kushner’s access to the French government has been restored, allowing him to resume his diplomatic ...

This aims to enhance the effectiveness of institutional responses and protect the rights of women and girls.

At the risk of twisting a few Biblical passages myself, doesn’t the Old Testament talk about the Tower of Babel where no one could understand a word the others were saying because God — pissed off by ...

Elimination must build on locally driven, grassroots achievements Global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) stand at a crossroads, with uneven progress, commitments increasingly ...

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Belgium's government summoned U.S. Ambassador Bill White for consultations on Tuesday after he accused the country of antisemitism, intervening in a case involving three Jewish religious figures ...