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Itzchak Tessler

הרבי מלובביץ'
Did the Lubavitcher Rebbe foresee Israel’s security failures?
Two years before the Yom Kippur War, the Rebbe warned Israel’s intelligence chief against relying on the Bar-Lev Line and deals with Egypt; a new book revisits his strategic thinking and its lessons for Israel today
Itzchak Tessler | 09.18.26
יהודה וידבסקי
‘My revenge is that the Nazis lost’: Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 107
Yehuda Widawski survived Auschwitz and Nazi forced labor, immigrated to Israel in 1950 and later devoted decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland; he helped identify more than 3,000 graves and lit a torch at Israel’s 2012 Holocaust memorial ceremony
Shilo Freid, Itzchak Tessler | 09.14.26
‘More than a false messiah’: new exhibition reexamines Sabbatai Zevi
Rare letters, books and artworks trace the rise, conversion and enduring legacy of the 17th-century messianic leader whose movement swept across the Jewish world and continued to shape Jewish memory long after his death
Itzchak Tessler | 08.27.26
אשמדאי
King of demons, king of loneliness: The Jewish legends of Asmodeus
Asmodeus appears in Jewish literature as a demon who threatens intimacy, family and identity; From killing seven grooms in the Book of Tobit to replacing King Solomon in a Talmudic legend, he represents humanity’s fears of loneliness, deception and hidden selves
Itzchak Tessler | 08.07.26
תבליט המנורה בשער טיטוס ברומא
Where are the Ark of the Covenant and the lost Temple treasures?
Ancient texts place the Ark beneath the Temple Mount, historical accounts trace the menorah from Jerusalem to Rome, and archaeologists reject claims that the Vatican holds the sacred vessels, leaving one of Judaism’s greatest mysteries unresolved
Itzchak Tessler | 07.23.26
תבליט מסופוטמי עתיק המציג את גילגמש הורג את שור השמיים
Floods, serpents and wisdom: the surprising similarities between Gilgamesh and the Bible
A new Hebrew translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh highlights striking parallels with the Bible, from the flood story to wisdom sayings in Ecclesiastes; scholars say the similarities reflect shared myths and cultural traditions across the ancient Near East
Itzchak Tessler | 05.21.26
שרה חרדית מבני ברק שיצאה בשאלה מתגייסת לצה"ל
Sarah left the Haredi world and chose IDF enlistment: ‘Military service was my childhood dream’
After years of doubt, Sarah left her ultra-Orthodox home in Bnei Brak, completed gaps at a pre-army program and is set to begin IDF basic training before joining an electronics project in the ICT Directorate: ‘I simply set a fact’
Itzchak Tessler | 04.27.26
מתוך הגדה ליום העצמאות באנגלית מאת הרב שלמה גורן, הוצאת המגבית היהודית המאוחרת, ניו יורק, 1978
The 'Independence Day Haggadah' scandal
A 1950s attempt to create a national Independence Day ritual sparked backlash from religious leaders, who condemned its message and led efforts to destroy copies, derailing similar initiatives for decades despite later attempts
Itzchak Tessler | 04.22.26
חציית המצה לשניים במהלך הסדר
What to do if there is a siren during the Seder? Questions of Jewish law for Passover
How do you prepare your home for Passover when your spouse is in the reserves? Should you repeat kiddush if an air-raid siren goes off during the telling of the Exodus story? Against the backdrop of the war against Iran, rabbis answer some important questions
Shmuel Munitz, Itzchak Tessler | 03.31.26
חייל מתפלל ליד גבול רצועת עזה
We tested the IDF’s new AI rabbi on Jewish law, and the results were mixed
Shaking hands with women, sleeping next to a paramedic of the opposite sex in an armored vehicle, food heated on Shabbat and female singing; these are the explosive questions the army's kosher chatbot avoided, and the ones it tackled head-on
Itzchak Tessler | 01.29.26
כריכת ספרו של הכט
Kosher cheeseburgers and autonomous cars on Shabbat: how technology could reshape Jewish religious life
Cultured meat, artificial intelligence and smart homes could upend long-standing religious practices, says Rabbi Shlomo Hecht, who predicts a future Judaism focused more on belief and thought than on detailed legal rulings
Itzchak Tessler | 01.09.26
ראש הממשלה הראשון של ישראל, דוד בן גוריון
How the Bible shaped David Ben-Gurion’s vision for Israel and morality
Though secular, he connected deeply with the Bible as the sweeping story of the Jewish people, identifying with the king who built the land and the Negev and seeing the prophets’ ethics as a cornerstone of modern Western morality
Itzchak Tessler | 12.26.25
חייל בהלוויית הרב מאיר מאזוז בבני ברק
Apocalypse now: what’s the story behind messianism in the Jewish world?
Maimonides set rules for identifying the Messiah, but history had other plans: from Sabbatai Zevi to the Six-Day War, messianic waves shook Jewish life; some still await the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s return; we trace the story of Jewish messianism, past and present
Itzchak Tessler | 12.22.25
הרב אהרון ליבוביץ' (אוחז במיקרופון) בחתונה
Jewish law, minus the bureaucracy: how Zoom weddings opened a halachic back door around the rabbinate
A new partnership between the Orthodox group Chuppot and a Utah civil officiant now lets couples marry halachically without the Chief Rabbinate and add a video civil ceremony to register in Israel, highlighting growing frustration with the Rabbinate’s monopoly
Itzchak Tessler | 12.04.25
לוי פרגר באוניברסיטת רייכמן
Dutch-born reservist discovers Jewish roots, fights for lone soldiers’ Rights
Levi Preger learned at 17 that he was Jewish after his grandmother hid her identity for fear of another Holocaust in Europe; during the war he served more than 300 days in the reserves while studying
Itzchak Tessler | 11.27.25
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