
Light and Joy
Inspired by the unbridled bliss of the Simchat Torah holiday, I promised myself that whenever I am overwhelmed, I will focus on things that remind me of why I should be grateful.

Inspired by the unbridled bliss of the Simchat Torah holiday, I promised myself that whenever I am overwhelmed, I will focus on things that remind me of why I should be grateful.

How can something as beautiful as the search for a meaningful life connect to something as evil as murder?

Proposition 39 can do little harm, might do a little good and is nothing to rush to the ramparts about.

10,000 frontline Houthi militia could determine the outcome of this month’s election and indirectly select the Jewish state’s next leader.

We have a bunker buster: 10,000 words of evidence that Hamas committed genocide on Oct. 7. What are we planning to do with it?

Memorials, especially a memorial for an unspeakable tragedy, are a reminder that, in the end, we can never really “move on.”

Even on this singular day to honor the victims of Oct. 7, the mayor kept the poison coming.

Students like me have come to understand that pro-Israel students being othered is the new campus normal. It shouldn’t be.

I just completed a project I started in November 2023: taking each of my three sons on vacation separately.

More than half a century later, I remember the punishing hills, but I also remember the chaplain who saw a brother rather than merely a soldier, and a Jewish community that made a young man from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, feel at home.




