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If President Trump succeeds in securing a ceasefire that leads to a durable agreement with Iran (and I hope he does), many in Washington will draw the...
Parashat Naso contains one of the most difficult passages in the Torah: the ritual of the Sotah, the woman suspected of adultery. There is no way to...
Monday night I saw Fiddler on the Roof. In Yiddish. Part of it was intellectual curiosity. Yiddish was the lingua franca of that world. Sholem...
Yesterday, I had two conversations that seemed separate at first, but the more I thought about them, the more I realized how connected they really...
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank often interferes with the mobility of its Palestinian inhabitants, especially when they need to travel to...
Nearly forty years ago, David Grossman published The Yellow Wind — a prophetic text warning of the effects of the occupation on both Jews and...
The Hubris of the Unheard: How Bureaucratic Arrogance is Costing Israel Is it my trauma speaking, or is history preparing itself to repeat once again?...
Donald Trump’s call for NATO allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz places European governments in a strategic dilemma in which their...
Jews were massacred on October 7. Before many were even buried, millions across the world had already decided the Jews themselves must somehow be...
For many of us, the period between 1970 and 2010 was not only the best of times for American Jewish life but also, it could be argued, the most...
There are moments in the life of a movement when ambiguity is no longer humility. It is evasion. This is one of those moments. At the Re-CHARGING...
I did not grow up thinking Zionism would one day become a word that people whispered cautiously. For much of my life, Zionism felt simple. It was...
Israeli police arrested 21 Jewish activists in May 2026 as they tried to bring a young goat onto the Temple Mount for a korban Pesach offering during...
Netanyahu’s Predictable Strategy When UNSC 2803 established the Gaza Board of Peace, I assessed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not...
The menorah burns before the camp awakens. Aaron brings the flame close and waits until it stands on its own. He does not force the light; he...
Some of us are always looking for a mentor to help take us to the next level. Some of us just shrug our shoulders at mentorship. But could there be a...
A Personal Reflection on the Man Who Taught Me the Meaning of True Mentorship On Sunday, May 17, I attended a workshop at the Center for the Study of...
The Office of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has reportedly decided to place Israeli armed and security entities on the United...
Would I observe Shabbat? That was the first major test of my faith, some four decades ago, soon after I had joined the ranks of the baalei teshuvah,...
Thank you to the Klein family for allowing me to share Danny’s story. May his memory be for a blessing. I often get asked by my speaking audiences:...
I was eight years old when my family was relocated from the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to the Shuafat Refugee Camp outside the city....
You Are What You Eat: Kashrus, Humanity, and the Rambam’s Blunt Truth Our Gemara on Amud Beis relates the prophet Yechezkel’s reaction to a...
This week was the 25th (!) anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah. I always know exactly how many years it has been since my Bar Mitzvah, because I celebrated...
New York’s mayor does not have to agree with every Israeli government policy to march in the Israel Day Parade. But when he refuses to stand with...
An agenda may look like a list of topics, but it quietly teaches an organization what leadership values. What gets time, what gets delayed, and what...
If Beha’alotecha teaches us anything, it is that human beings can survive slavery, witness miracles, receive Divine revelation, eat food delivered...
All too often those of us who work in elder care confront ageism and ageist attitudes. We hear people talk about “those people” when referring to...
In the spring of 1978, I found myself in the middle of a newsroom occupation. I was a reporter at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian at UMass Amherst,...
America and Israel have demonstrated unrivalled military supremacy. The challenge now is ensuring Tehran’s rulers do not convert defeat on the...
The Eternal shall bless you and keep you, the Eternal will make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Eternal will lift up His countenance...
A tender father-son moment with Hersh appears at the end of Rachel Polin-Goldberg’s new book. Twice every Shabbat morning, Jon would cover Hersh in...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL 1869. Eça de Queiroz in the Holy Land Eça de Queiroz’s Palestine chronicles occupy a distinctive place at the...
Last week, having missed the bus from Tel Aviv to Mevasseret, I found myself unexpectedly on the train. My natural instinct on being in that situation...
António Guterres has spent nine years claiming to combat sexual exploitation while presiding over an institution that shields its own offenders. At...
I recently had the privilege (yes, I know it was a privilege) to attend the opera at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, sitting in a gilded box for the...
The United Nations has added Israel to its list of countries accused of using sexual violence as a weapon in conflict, placing it alongside Hamas and...
At a rather fast pace, we walked through the Arab shuk on our way to the Kotel to daven Mincha. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a group of Jews...
I’m starting my blog with an unusual post: a short story I wrote in December 2023, only two months after the October 7th attack, which has sat in my...
Last week’s topic — Once Upon a Time a Jew? (a true story of a lapsed convert) — struck a chord with many people, but not all for the same...
We keep telling ourselves and anyone who will listen that Judaism and Zionism are somehow the same thing. However, a century ago that was by no...
OK, so the headline here is slightly exaggerated. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox might come in “only” 10-20 different varieties, not 50. However, given...
The Alshich gave a description of how the Jewish people traveled in the desert. There were times when they stayed in a specific location for many...
For thirty-six hours, a wounded American weapons systems officer lay in a mountain crevice in southern Iran. His F-15E Strike Eagle had been brought...
A South African critique of my article exposed how easily accusation replaces evidence. I wrote an argument. It was turned into an operation. My Times...
Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Affairs, emphatically stated, concerning the United States-Israel-Iran War, that...
This year marks 108 years since the first independence of Armenia in 1918, and more than three decades since the rebirth of Armenian and Georgian...
Israeli neuroscientist Meital Oren-Suissa visited Brazil in the first half of May for a series of events organized by the Friends of the Weizmann...
While we know that the Golem was finally deactivated, there are several different conflicting versions about how that happened, each one incorporating...
Mt. Sinai Congregation in Cheyenne is the oldest synagogue in Wyoming and one of the most remarkable symbols of Jewish life on the High Plains....
At first blush, the answer to the question in the title is clear from the fact that U.S.-Israel relations are closer than ever, evident from the joint...
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