
Can We Rescue Our Youth from Social Media?
A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.

A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.




















We have no illusions about the rising threat to Jews around the world; we know there are PR battles Zionists may never win. But we



A family’s discovery of good and evil in the aftermath of 9/11

Making Israeli films is not easy. Budgets are generally small by American standards, and international financing has become increasingly difficult to secure amid the cultural boycott of Israeli cinema.
Mark Smith has compiled an important anthology of Jewish history using 49 works by Yiddish historians to recreate or at least open the door to a world of Jewish thought that was once almost mainstream, but which no longer exists, except in the minds of too few specialists.
Most Jews who have sung “Eitz Chaim” over the past half-century probably never knew Portnoy. They did not know when he wrote the melody or how young he was when he composed it. They simply knew the song.
The 402-page book is organized around 36 life lessons related to the Book of Genesis, with thoughtful study questions and dozens of responses from respected sources in Jewish thought.









Our Parent, our Sovereign – I’m embarrassed to tell You we have not been great.










We Made This Mistake With Social Media. Let’s Not Make It Again With AI.
My Choice for Essay of the Year
More Time to Dream
Why Do I Write?
For the New Year, a New Look at Hate