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Why Jewish girls are missing in the discourse around Israel

When a Jewish girl in 12th grade stands up to discuss Israeli politics, she speaks with the same confidence level as a boy in 7th grade. What’s...

24.12.2025 5

Ilana M. Horwitz

In India, my Jewish community celebrates Hanukkah not with fear, but in belonging

Amid the rumbling vibrancy of Mumbai, a city of around 27 million within a country of nearly 1.5 billion, lies my small yet mighty community where...

20.12.2025 20

Nissim Pingle

When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.

Shortly after Thanksgiving, my children develop a refrain: “We have to start decorating for Hanukkah!” They pull out a plastic bin stuffed with...

17.12.2025 4

Rabbi Joshua Ladon

Ahmed al Ahmed’s bravery at Bondi Beach reminds us of our own humanity in a world that seeks to erode it

We tend to think of human behavior as deeply shaped by group lines. Again and again, research in social psychology and social neuroscience, along...

17.12.2025 10

Iddo Gefen

The Bondi Beach attack is inspiring Jewish pride. For our children’s sake, we need to allow our fear, too.

Just last Monday night, I experienced one of the pinnacles of my professional life: interviewing Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin. That evening,...

16.12.2025 5

David Bryfman

Dancing through Itzhak Perlman’s birthday klezmer concert was a joyous blast from my Yiddish past

When writing a review for a play you haven’t seen, you have to wait until the end of the show to start writing your piece. But when you attend...

11.12.2025 9

Curt Leviant

This Hanukkah, my synagogue is illuminating our walls with relics of our Jewish immigrant stories

Outside of the social hall on the second floor of my synagogue, the historic Society for the Advancement of Judaism on West 86th Street in...