The Jewish state is a rebuke to the idea that more people means more poverty.

Palestinians evacuate wounded from a building destroyed in Israeli bombardment in Rafah refugee camp in Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair) The invasion of Israel by Hamas ...

(RNS) — Pro-Israel evangelicals and some members of Congress want to use the biblical names Judea and Samaria for what is now known as the West Bank. (RNS) — President Donald Trump began his second ...

The original last three lines of the poem read, “the ancient hope to return to the land of our fathers, to the city where [King] David dwelt.” After Israel’s creation, the lines were changed to put ...

Words that once spoke of ancient hope now land in a world shaped by war and grief. What does it mean to sing “Israel” in ...