Against All Odds, the Body of the Last Hostage Has Come Home
A lesson to the world about Jewish values.
January 27, 2026
The Plague on the Other Side of the Jordan
A mass grave reveals evidence of a 6th-century epidemic.
The city of Jerash or Gerasa is located in what is now northwestern Jordan, which in ancient times was the territory of the tribe of Menasseh. In the 1st century BCE, it was part of the Hasmonean kingdom of Judea for about twenty years, and at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple a century later there was still a Jewish population. It is unknown whether any Jews remained during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, when the first well-documented case of the bubonic plague swept through the Middle East. Yogev Israeli explains what the discovery of a mass grave in Jerash reveals:
January 27, 2026
Israel Can’t Afford to Ignore Violence in Arab Communities
Broken-windows policing could prevent a third intifada.
Woke Anti-Semitism Comes for Psychology
The “Jewish science” has a Jewish problem.
A Jewish Guide for the Gender Perplexed
“Two ideas of personality.”
The Plague on the Other Side of the Jordan
A mass grave reveals evidence of a 6th-century epidemic.