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Stella: A Life

Sheldon Kirshner

Keeping It Up

William Hamilton

October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre

Abe Gurko

Getting out of Depression – How Might We Commemorate October 7th this Year?

Mitchel Malkus

Healing Divisions in Our Community- Yom Kippur 5786

Ben Einsidler

The Great Fast of a Great Nation

Mikhail Salita

Yom Kippur: Avodat Shem, not guilt

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Lucky Ones

Rebeca Permuth De Sabbagh

Sukkot: Past, Present and Future

Harold Kandler

Nursing Hope, Fighting Fear

Amanda Goldstein

Before the Nakba: Khomeini’s Kashf al-Asrār and Iran’s Antisemitic Roots

Tim Orr

The Soul of a Nation at Stake

Shane Shmuel

Netanyahu’s Genocidal Regime Poses the Greatest Single Threat to Judaism Today

Michael Zoosman

Europe’s Suicide Pact with Jihad

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Reflections on Support at the Start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Ainat Koller

Moses the Man (Ha’azinu, Covenant & Conversation)

Jonathan Sacks

India’s Taj Mahal: Poetry Carved in White

Motti Verses

One Day of Truth: Yom Kippur as an Override Manual

Richard Diamond

This Government Must Repent: Dead Jews Aren’t the Price

Benjy Morgan

Those Opposed to Occupation Must Atone for Not Being With Us On the Ground

Arik Ascherman

Do Not Accept Propaganda by Hamas and Their Western Supporters

Jaroslava Halper

Yom Kippur: Living a Guilt-Filled Life

Frederick L. Klein

Abu Suhaib: Hamas’ Last Terror Boss in Gaza

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Yom Kippur Eve: Anxiety, Kol Nidrei, and the Office Assassins

Talyah Ginsberg

Defending the Right to Worship: Why the DOJ’s FACE Act Lawsuit Matters

Gerard Filitti

Oxford Debate Club Now Calls Opponents ‘Morons’

Lesia Dubenko

No Creation of God is Disposable on Earth

Gulin Eva Gelogullari Abulafya

Actions Speak Louder Than Words – Why Curtis For NY

Cindy Grosz

The International Scapegoat

Samuel Stern

How Khomeini Turned Shiʿi Eschatology into a Revolutionary Antisemitic Ideology

Tim Orr

New York’s Turning Point: When Moderates Fall, Extremes Rule

Beth Kuhel

Some thoughts about Trump’s deal

Yoseph Janowski

Changing for the Better

Keshet Starr

Israel’s Semiconductor Industry Comes of Age

James Ogunleye

The Kedoshim Slaughtered Because They Were Jews – Light A Yahrzeit Candle

Paul Mendlowitz

Candles in Daylight and in Darkness

Seth Goren

Early Intervention Helps Prevent Chronic PTSD Before It Starts

Maayan Aviv

Kol Nidre: Alone, Together

Jena Schwartz

Whale of a Succah