The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a public reading of the ...

In a sense, the Charleston attack was of a piece with other instances of racially or ethnically motivated lone-wolf terrorism: Anders Breivik, Nidal Hasan, and, 21 years back, Baruch Goldstein ...

Nearly 10 years have passed since I visited a Jewish settlement outside of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, and was confronted by a settler at the gravesite of Baruch Goldstein.

On 25 February 1994, which was also the 15th day of Ramadan, Baruch Goldstein, a Zionist terrorist from the far-right Kach movement, carried out a massacre in al-Ibrahimi Mosque. Goldstein entered ...