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Tabby Refael (@TabbyRefael on X and Instagram) is an award-winning writer, speaker, and weekly columnist.

If Time was a Jewish magazine, I would nominate you for its annual “Person of the Year.”

A talk with Israel Bachar, the newly-arrived Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles.

Here are 10 questions we should all be asking ourselves and others about Israel, Hamas and this previously unimaginable war.


I want to share several observations with readers about what I will now remember as one of the hardest days of my life.

It was me versus a machine. And flesh-and-bone, inefficient human that I am, I believe I lost.

This time of year is rife for heartfelt prayers, and in contemplating this week’s column, I wondered what I could add to the undoubtedly powerful words that so many Jewish writers will share about this special time.

His name was Michael Levi, and he was my little cousin.

Most of the latest reader questions for this “Dear Tabby: Rosh Hashanah Edition” focused on how to have a stress-free High Holy Days season.

This year, the first day of Rosh Hashanah (September 16) also marks the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who perished at the hands of Iran’s brutal morality police in 2022.