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For me, the sun and the moon revolve around “I Love Lucy,” which premiered over 70 years ago. Anyone who loves to laugh ought to appreciate Lucille Ball. But anyone who loves to write ought to appreciate Jess Oppenheimer.

As a community, we can afford to lift our gaze above the basic goals of survival and continuity. We ought to find ways to fulfill our potential and rise beyond the self through altruism and spirituality.

The Torah remains our greatest inheritance and our heaviest piece of baggage—simultaneously an elixir of life and an elixir of death depending on the spirit in which it is imbibed.

TWZ offers an antidote to the damage of isolation, shaming and other risks of social media: by offering teens a space to feel less alone and stigmatized, and part of a caring community.

Bronfman and Steinhardt allowed the re-founding of Birthright as a professional government-backed venture that had direct access to power and global, philanthropic and diplomatic reach.

Today, Israel is robust — but the Zionist conversation has turned fragile. 

On Crenshaw Boulevard, Swerdlow captured one of the most iconic images of what came to be known as the LA Riots, also known as the 1992 LA uprising or civil unrest, when she captured a raw photograph of an angry six-year-old Reggie Gardner in the backseat of his uncle’s car. “It’s a symbol of some of the hopelessness,” she told CBS news in 1998, “and that if you can’t change a six-year-old kid, you’ve lost the battle. You’ve lost it.”

There are congregations that are thriving, growing and serving their sacred communities. How? What are the principles and practices that contribute to this success?

We stand on the brink of a momentous time, an opportunity to energize our communities, to revitalize democracy, to fight for survival and for peace.

The 35-year-old Scottish Jew is a prominent pro-Israel activist who speaks up about antisemitism on Twitter and her Substack, Blacklisted.