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Long before he became the first Israeli to be launched into space, Ilan Ramon, as a 23-year-old fighter pilot, asked Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz: “What is man’s purpose in this world?” Leibowitz did his best to answer.

Avichai Mendelblit says the decision will ‘get to the truth and formulate recommendations that will prevent the recurrence of tragic incidents like the disaster in Meron,’ the crowd crush which left 45 dead in April.

“The point of the matter is, as Rabbi Kook writes, that the inner soul of the Zionism movement derives from a holy source.” Book excerpt.

Given Christian complicity in the Holocaust, the bust’s installation at the iconic church raised questions. That might just be the whole point.

Teeth belonging to sharks which swam in the time of the dinosaurs were collected by an unknown person in First Temple-period Jerusalem.

Attorney General given 30 days to present government reports on planning of Lag B’Omer event at Mount Meron, where 45 people were killed in a deadly crush.

“One thing we do know: We know that we do not know.”

Finance Minister at cabinet meeting calls for final passage of Draft Law which was torpedoed in earlier governments. “Historic justice.”

Mordechai Karelitz, former Bnei Brak mayor, will be Haredi voice on 3-member panel, alongside IDF’s ex-head of planning; April 30 tragedy claimed 45 lives, mostly ultra-Orthodox.

Parashat Balak is indisputably the most hilarious parashah in the entire Torah.

The state must ensure that its citizens’ lives are not forfeit, and that those responsible for the disaster will be identified and the necessary conclusions drawn.

Renowned biblical scholar Richard Elliott Friedman suggests we got it wrong all along: that the real culprits weren’t the Babylonians.

Inaugurated Thursday, the richly renovated synagogue compound – a WWII deportation point for Jews sent to their deaths – is now a lively multipurpose Jewish cultural center.

Kabbalistic literature looked for ancient symbols through which it could express its daring innovations. It found such a symbol in the Menorah…

The six pointed star represents peace and harmony in Buddhism, while alchemists believed it symbolized nature—how did the Star of David acquire its significance in Judaism?