Debra Eckerling, Judy Gruen and Kylie Ora Lobell won top honors at the 2025 awards ceremony. Judea Pearl presented the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.
On the holiday of Sukkot, it is customary to read Kohelet, the Book of Ecclesiastes, written by King Solomon. The following \”updated\” version of Kohelet is written by Judy Gruen, with major apologies to King Solomon.
A rising tide of literature, movies, articles, podcasts, and even some business names and consumer products are laced with four-letter words.
This light of Shabbat was built into the foundation of the universe, and I believe that it can counter the darkness of worry, of pain, of conflict, of trivialities. What a powerful idea to think about when we embrace the light.
Yad Ezra V’Shulamit distributes more than one million pounds of food every week at 93 distribution points across the country, and more than five million pounds on Passover and Rosh Hashanah.
Our hearts and tears overflow seeing these reunions.
It was a place of dark temptation for me, a place I hadn’t dared visit for years.
In today’s column I am revisiting the topic of insomnia because insomnia keeps revisiting me.
