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When Ben-Gurion Met Jabotinsky

Jabotinsky: "You have turned from being a Jew to being an Eretz Yisraelite."  Ben-Gurion: "That is why I see the world and judge it from the perspective of this small patch of land." (Fiction)Mishpatim: Cracking the Covenant Code

The goring ox—to whom it belongs, and whom it gores. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:12:05All Quiet on the Gaza Front?

Since Operation Pillar of Defense, Sderot has been free of rocket fire from Gaza for the first time since 2004.  But it will take more than that for the town to return to normal. God Above Moves Down

"Belief in what is above us has increasingly moved to what is within us.... God has been not only dethroned, but given a seat next to us in the bleachers."Misunderstanding Midrash

Maimonides wrote that those who take the Midrash literally "destroy the Torah’s glory and darken its brilliance," but many Orthodox teachers today do just that.A Partridge Among the Pigeons

Conservationists have ignored the poor Philby's Partridge, a Yemenite bird on the brink of extinction.  But an American rabbi is working to save it—because it might be kosher.Rehabilitating Herod

"He’s notoriously known as the bad guy," says the curator of the Israel Museum's vast new exhibit on King Herod.  "But this man was a riddle."