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Print Issue: A 1944 Hanukkah Message to America | December 12, 2025
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Of Doughnuts and Dreidels
December 10, 2025
This week Rachel and I are thrilled to share our column with our friend Rinat to tell us about a unique Hanukkah tradition involving women.
The Donuts Are Coming!
December 10, 2025
Every year brings different spins on the classic sufganiyot.
Not Your Bubbe’s Latkes
December 10, 2025
Whether you switch up your latke ingredients, toppings or both, you can have lots of oily goodness without getting bored.
A 1944 Hanukkah Message to America
December 10, 2025
Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation delivered a Hanukkah message that resonates to this day.
Rosner’s Domain | The Psychology of Accepting Reality
December 10, 2025
Israelis expected the war would end when Hamas is eradicated. They now have to face a different reality. After two years of blood, sweat and many tears, the enemy is still out there, lurking in the dark, waiting to fight another day.
A Prophet among the Rhinos
December 10, 2025
In this selection of essays, op-eds and speeches, the first piece written six months after his son’s murder, Pearl gives us words that are, yes, sometimes heartbreaking, but also funny, profound, scrappy, informative and strikingly prescient.
As We Wrestle
December 10, 2025
My hope is that we, too, embrace the kind of wrestling that leads to blessing.
Getting Our Hanukkah Story Right
December 10, 2025
This is unmistakably a Jewish story: the mother is no preacher of martyrdom.
The Ethics of Fearlessness in an Age of Jewish Erasure
December 10, 2025
We can perhaps avoid fear, but we cannot avoid anxiety. However, we don’t need to get rid of it; we need to pass through it. But what’s on the other side?
The Freedom to Be Different: Rekindling our Eternal Hanukkah Light
December 9, 2025
It’s only through fully recognizing our individualism that we can be unified as a people. And it’s only through nourishing the soul that the bravery, nonconformity, and the true spirit and resilience of the Maccabees can be achieved.
Time of Hope
December 9, 2025
It is truly in darkness, the night which starts the Jewish day, that we come to face our fears and uncertainties, to find the glow of light that reignites faith, hope and possibility.
I Watched Science Change the World. Here’s What Could Stop It.
December 9, 2025
As we mark the 45th anniversary of Bayh-Dole, we must remember its origins: a bipartisan solution that allowed science and taxpayer-funded research to deliver public benefits.
Choosing Good Over Evil
December 9, 2025
The conclusion of 2025 is an excellent occasion to step back and reflect on our failings.
Jews Aiming for White House
December 9, 2025
Rahm Emanuel is one of four Jewish political leaders seriously considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a time when antizionism is growing and antisemitism is coagulating.
Hanukkah, Then, Now, Tomorrow
December 9, 2025
Will our descendants 100 years from now be living proud, happy and meaningful Jewish lives? This will largely depend on choices we make today.
When Jews Call Synagogues ‘Zionist’: The Cost of Teaching Zionism as Politics
December 9, 2025
Once Zionism is presented as a political stance rather than as the modern expression of Jewish peoplehood, antizionism is easily misread as ordinary political disagreement.
How an American-Born Jewish Feminist and Zionist Helped Build Israel’s Healthcare System
December 9, 2025
She understood immediately what few had yet recognized: a people cannot rebuild their homeland while battling diseases that modern medicine already knew how to prevent.
