Lisa Ansell is the Associate Director of the USC Casden Institute.
Housing costs affect whether younger families can remain near grandparents, educators can live near schools and congregations can sustain participation across generations.
This is more than a proposal to construct apartments. It is an invitation to reconsider what a Jewish institution can be.
For the Jewish community, this threat is particularly severe because Jewish life is built around proximity, continuity and intergenerational relationships.
He didn’t ask the audience to overlook his disability; he showed us how it could become a source of power, beauty and artistic innovation.
America’s housing crisis demands more than incremental turns. By doubling capital gains relief and launching the T.E.A.C.H. Homes Program, policymakers can inject immediate momentum into a market desperately needing it.
Beyond the on-field excitement of global soccer lies a deeper opportunity: to draw hard-earned lessons from the nations that have long dominated the beautiful game.
As I left the theater, wiping my eyes, I felt renewed gratitude for traditions that slow us down enough to truly see one another.
Treating education costs and housing as parallel crises reveals a unified threat to demographic and cultural vitality.
For those who remain, the struggle is real.
Rogers invites us back to ve’ahavta l’reacha kamocha: love your neighbor as yourself, and organize your life so you actually meet them.
