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It is almost Passover again. The matzah boxes have returned to the supermarket shelves Kids cut out frogs and pyramids in kindergarten, not yet...
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. After the terror attacks of...
Israeli winemakers, farmers, and producers are confident that conditions will begin to show signs of recovery in the coming months following years...
Amsterdam: the location of many pro-Palestinian protests. Since October 7th, the capital of the Netherlands has seen many pro-Palestinian or anti-...
In recent weeks, demonstrations have erupted in Gaza. Scenes of people marching through rubble in protest took many by surprise. They started in...
The meal hasn’t even begun. The table is set, the glass still empty, and the maror sits in its place, clinging to its symbolic purpose. But the...
Ireland introduced compulsory generic medicines substitution in 2013, leading to significant changes in medicine usage here. Much American...
As I write this, my living room is still cluttered with Purim masks, clown wigs, baskets of candy, and baked treats. There’s no sign that the...
At the end of the book of Exodus, which we read last week, the tabernacle was completed, but Moses was not able to enter it because “the cloud...
At a time when many people are still overly fearful about going to Israel, 10 Hadassah Evolve Leadership Fellows, including three from my own...
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When a man from brings an offering to G-d, you must bring your offering from animals — from cattle or...
The first time I went to Gaza, I stood with a resident of Jabaliya camp as he explained that not one resident of Jabaliya town had ever married a...
Islamic-Christian relations have spanned over 1,400 years, marked by periods of cooperation, coexistence, and conflict. While much attention has...
We thought it would be useful to begin this column which deals with the civilian death toll in Gaza with a statement from the United Nations...
Israel stands on the precipice of a decisive victory over its adversaries. As the military campaign in Gaza resumes, Hamas finds itself with almost...
Our synagogue hosted its first-ever No Ruz celebration last week. An extraordinary evening of live piano performances and dancing by youth and...
This blogpost aims to critique Israeli politics; the fact that it now reviews a very recently published book on a seemingly unrelated topic is only...
There I was. A tiny town, a gathering point for those who were summoned. We came, to join our brothers-in-arms, with Syrian artillery raining death...
A retrospective selection – but not a comprehensive compendium – of some significant past April events with respect to Israel, Jews, the Middle...
On March 28, 2025, Berlin’s state parliament unanimously approved a motion to establish a twin town relationship with Tel Aviv. As the capital of...
Every year, around Passover, I find myself thinking about how we bring people together — not just physically around a table, but emotionally,...
In Parshat Vayikra, we read about the Korbanot (sacrifices) that need to be brought after a person transgresses. Not only the lay people are...
With the country burning, Nero Netanyahu and wife are taking a taxpayer-funded jaunt on a long, cozy weekend far from the threat of arrest All...
Last year on Passover, the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace staged what they called an anti-Zionist Seder at the University of Southern...
The Qur’an teaches: Say, [O believers], “We believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us [the Qur’an] and what has been revealed to...
Midnight doesn’t arrive all at once. It slips in slowly, as if it knows it doesn’t belong. It dims the voices one by one. Silences the world...
An open letter to the simple son Dear Tom, Your mother and I are so happy to hear that you’ll be joining us again for seder this year. I know that...
Automation in farming. AI writing school curricula. Entire towns powered by off-grid solar and governed by digital cooperatives. These are no...
“After October 7.” How many sentences have we all started with those words? It’s still hard to explain to our non-Jewish friends how life-altering,...
The other night, I dreamed that I sat in a sports bar sipping on a Johnnie Walker Black. I felt the scotch burn my throat. While on the TV, I...
Before touring the Anne Frank exhibition at New York’s Center for Jewish History (CJH), I decided to do background research. That is, I read the...
New large language models (LLMs) seem to appear every day, yet the controversy surrounding the legality of training them on copyrighted material...
With all the news coming out of Israel these days, it would’ve been easy to miss the recent prediction by Moody’s that the country’s...
“My students grants on Alzheimer’s Disease were cancelled.” “I can only keep my lab open for a month or two without these funds.” These are the...
The question is often asked as to whether the Jewish calendar is lunar or solar. The correct answer is that it is both. The individual months are...
This is the 22nd part of a series on Christianity and the history of antisemitism. While we are often reminded to “Never forget,” many of us were...
The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian...
They were always there- at school plays, birthday parties, sitting amongst us in the audience at Yom Hashoah memorials. They were in our homes,...
This Shabbat is a banner Shabbat in the Jewish calendar. We read parshat Pekudei, which completes our yearly reading of the book of Exodus. It is...
Introduction On October 7, 2023, Hamas conducted surprise attacks on several areas in Israel, slaughtering millions of innocent people.[1] Akin to...