I have to remind myself that this is not a time to spiral. Worrying all day isn’t productive. While it’s important to be alert and aware of threats, I don’t have to constantly be anxious.
If Time was a Jewish magazine, I would nominate you for its annual “Person of the Year.”
Jews feel cheated by the world. At the lowest moment of modern Jewish history, when we could have expected a sea of global sympathy, we got the opposite.
The studio version of “Now and Then” omits the “I don’t want to lose you” bridge that touched on the frightening possibility of Lennon losing the love of his life.
After the bewildering and surreal darkness of Oct. 7, followed by the biggest burst of Jew hatred in recent memory, the great majority of Jews have picked a side. Their own.
We should do what is right for one essential reason – we are Jews.
In the midst of this war, the seed we planted, which I feared had gone dormant, has begun to flourish.
A talk with Israel Bachar, the newly-arrived Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles.
We in Israel cannot live with the imminent threat of this happening again.
Just because none of us can do everything doesn’t mean that none of us can do anything.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.