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My son Shaya loves saying “Six-Seven.” He says it often, with full confidence, as if everyone in the room is supposed to understand exactly what...
When King David completed the book of Psalms, he believed there could be no creature in the universe capable of praising God more deeply than a human...
Our Parsha this week (which is double) sends us some very powerful warnings about this entire experience of building a Mishkan while living in the...
The photograph is the answer to every name Lithuania has called me. Image source: Papilė family photograph, July 27, 1927. I have spent decades...
It’s Time to Dismantle the Apparatus Terrorizing American Jews The terrorizing of Jews attending a real estate discussion at New York City’s Park...
I have been active both here in Israel and internationally with both therapists and theorists who work with people suffering from trauma, specifically...
One of the most important parts of the conversation is Mead’s argument that American sympathy toward Jewish restoration long predates modern...
A confident Jewish future begins when students become teachers. I once heard the Bostoner Rebbe speak to a group of college students. One student,...
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a 6 to 3 decision that struck a powerful blow for electoral integrity. In...
When the Mountain Stays the Hand and the Laws Hold the World Without Our Understanding Them The mountain does not tremble. No one runs. There is no...
Iran’s assault on Israel’s interior front This is the third piece in what has become, without my fully planning it, a series about a single...
The “Iran: Back to the Norm” (IBN) strategy can let the US and Israel (the Coalition) snatch victories from the jaws of mission unaccomplished in...
When I was a young woman, I could never have imagined becoming the woman I am today. There was a time when I lived with a deep sense of loneliness and...
What happens when one of Ireland’s greatest institutions—The Late Late Show (a popular chat show, on air since 1962), one of its most recognizable...
Parshat Behar introduces Yovel, the Jubilee year. Every fifty years the shofar is sounded and we are commanded, “U’krasem dror ba’aretz l’chol...
Last Thursday night, Beth Tzedec hosted a panel that gave urgent shape to questions this Shabbat’s Torah portion has been asking all along. Bruce...
By every measure the United States is experiencing a significant, deliberate return to its 19th-century cultural and political framework,...
The Gulf region has once again become the center of rising geopolitical tensions, as Iran’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Gulf states,...
Antisemitism is on the rise. Jews all over the world are being attacked, both verbally and physically. What are you doing to solve this? You have for...
Broken hearts and broken buildings, yet cafe culture in Tel Aviv is still booming. I’ve always admired Israelis’ tough skin, though stubborn at...
For decades, Israel traded land for promises, restraint for applause, and strategic depth for the fantasy of “quiet.” October 7 exposed the brutal...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL Ishtori HaParchi: Pioneer of the Scientific Geography of Israel Ishtori HaParchi transformed personal exile into...
Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable,...
One of the more interesting stories I read this week wasn’t about politics or AI or the Middle East or the latest social media outrage cycle. It was...
‘The emperor has no clothes’ is an idiom describing a situation where a widely accepted, obvious truth is ignored or denied by a group due to...
One of the only questions I have been asked by both Jew and gentile alike is how much of an impact I believe the left will have on Jewish life in...
To My Mother, On This Day Prepared by Rabbi Anchelle Perl A Mother’s Day Meditation to Read Aloud Mama — before I say anything else, let me say...
This past Wednesday, Israeli member of Knesset Meir Porush felt it necessary to write a letter to the US ambassador, Mike Huckabee. In his letter,...
This is the fourth part of Treasure Trove’s celebration of Israel’s 78th Independence Day. On May 14, 1948 David Ben Gurion read Israel’s...
Your vote might make a difference. Register today to make sure you can vote in your State’s Primary and the General Election on November 3, 2026....
Source: depositphotos.com Chronic pain affects one adult in five (20%) worldwide, or over 1.5 billion people, and is the leading cause of disability....
Listening Softens Judgment “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “Be kind and compassionate to one another,...
At a time when foreign influence operations are growing more sophisticated and more aggressive, the United States faces a simple but urgent question:...
Why the apparent Trump–Netanyahu alignment on Iran may conceal a deeper strategic divergence. In my earlier essay, Ally or Instrument? Israel in the...
With the deadline for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion extended to June 14, and hearings commencing this week, some are...
Ukraine paid an enormous price for the defeat of Nazism — including its Jewish population — yet Moscow keeps turning a multiethnic tragedy into a...
One wonders about the terrible kelalot, the curses, in Parashat Bechukotai. Are they meant to be purely punishments for not observing the...
Abdullah Ibn Salam was a Jewish supporter of Prophet Muhammad, and might even be mentioned in the Qur’an. “Say, “Have you considered: If the...
Spellcheck has not kept up with the times, it keeps putting the hyphen in antizionism. Before 1948, “anti-Zionism” was an idea Jews of different...
“The soul is not nourished by what it takes in, but by what it gives.” — Viktor Frankl Much has been written about nourishment in its most...
An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...
Perhaps drawing inspiration from the high-octane aesthetics of 1980s cult cinema, future-tech concepts in specialized vehicle engineering are emerging...
The Torah teaches us about the laws of the “Yovel,” the jubilee year that takes place every fifty years. The verse related to Yovel, appears on...
This is no longer a forecast. Since February 28, when a joint US–Israeli operation against Iran began, Indian carriers alone have cancelled more...
This past week, I ran into my children’s preschool teacher, Stephanie Ziman at the Greater Baltimore JCC. It had probably been close to 14 years. We...
The relationship between Israel and world Diaspora Jews, especially American Jewry, has been deteriorating these past few years. So what else is new?...
When a Member of the Seimas boasted that the Genocide Center defeated Grant Gochin in court, Lithuania’s rule-of-law defense collapsed. On April 1,...
The best part of this week was Jerusalem cafés. On Monday, I met an old friend along the Mesila. For anyone who hasn’t walked there recently, the...
Israel’s Wars Never Truly Ended No other country in the modern world has lived under the constant shadow of war, terrorism, invasion, rocket fire,...
I did not go looking for Oskar Schindler. But he found me. It was really by chance one day: I was wandering through an old cemetery near the Zion Gate...
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