Jewish Exponent

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! What are you for?

11/26/2025

This week’s Torah portion is Vayetze: Genesis 28:10 – 32:3

Explore the significance of Jacob's dream in the Torah portion Vayetze, featuring the intriguing stairway to heaven.

11/26/2025

With Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new president of Syria, having met this month with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., it is a remarkable turnaround for a man who just a few weeks ago was internationally labeled a designated terrorist.

Explore the current political landscape in Syria with Ahmed al-Sharaa's surprising turnaround and his meeting with Donald Trump.

11/26/2025

Israel’s greatest strength is not only its military resilience or technological success, but its insistence on building a democratic, lawful, moral society in a region where power often substitutes for principle and justice is too often replaced by vengeance.

Explore the concept of law in Israel, a foundation for democracy and ethical governance in a complex region.

11/26/2025

The Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, traumatized Israelis and global Jewry. The world’s Jews will recover their equilibrium; however, Israelis will live with the trauma for years, as they did after the shock of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, exactly 50 years earlier.

Understand how the events in Israel have led to widespread trauma and psychological crises among its people.

11/26/2025

Americans do gratitude differently. Other countries remember victories or mourn tragedies. We feast. We gather around a table, not a monument.

Explore the unique essence of Thanksgiving, a deeply American holiday focused on gratitude, family, and food.

11/26/2025

The Trump administration is trying to investigate alleged antisemitism on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus. To aid in its effort, the administration wants to collect information on Jewish staff members.

This is a step too far, according to Jewish groups on the Penn campus and in the wider community.

Penn refuses to give EEOC names of Jewish employees amid allegations of antisemitism on campus. Discover the full story.

11/26/2025

At a major Turning Point USA conference last month — not a routine campus appearance, but a flagship event drawing more than 3,000 young conservatives at the University of Mississippi and livestreamed nationwide — Vice President JD Vance encountered a moment that demanded genuine leadership.

Explore JD Vance's response at the Turning Point USA conference and its implications for leadership amid controversy.

11/26/2025

Ron Dermer’s recent resignation as Israel’s minister of strategic affairs is more than a personal decision by one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest advisers.

Ron Dermer's resignation signals a pivotal shift in Israeli diplomacy and highlights his role in managing complex regional relationships.

11/26/2025

Of all the humanitarian catastrophes unfolding today, none has been more savage — and more willfully ignored — than Sudan’s civil war. More than 150,000 people have been killed.

11/26/2025

The U.N. Security Council’s approval of a U.S. resolution to deploy an international stabilization force in Gaza is being welcomed as the long-awaited turning point.

Explore the implications of the Gaza 'Stabilization Force' approved by the U.N. Security Council and its potential impact.

11/26/2025

An Oct. 7 families' lawsuit against Binance and its CEO claims they facilitated over $1 billion in funding to Hamas and its allies.