What a gangbuster quarter millennium of a résumé America has assembled. Much to be proud of, and, yet… far too few Americans are lining up to blow out the candles.

America’s 250th birthday arrives at a time when things have been especially lousy for Jews. But gratitude is a great Jewish value, so we’ve created a very special birthday present: an e-book with 250 reasons to be grateful for America.

With the U.S. and Iran signing a cease-fire deal that limits Israel’s options, the Israeli prime minister is facing a most difficult moment during an election year.

The question for the Jewish people today is not merely whether we believe in the future but whether we are willing to become the kind of people that the future requires.