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A Life in Fragments
May 27, 2026
Memory is essential for our sense of self. We rekindle our experiences through our memories. Without memory, who are we, and how can we make sense of the world?
The Israel Challenge
May 27, 2026
While both political parties have a vested political interest in pretending that there are only a scattered few antisemites in their respective ranks, the Jewish community does not have the same luxury.
Raising Jewish Children
May 26, 2026
The more we teach our children to love Judaism, the deeper the roots they will have as they grow in this melting pot of a world.
Mamdani’s OK Corral
May 25, 2026
We are reaching a powder keg moment in the Five Boroughs—a period never before imagined in a city so widely identified with its Jewish population.
When Jews Are Told We Don’t Belong
May 21, 2026
After all these decades following the Holocaust, after “Never Again” became the moral promise of the civilized world, are we really heading back toward this kind of discrimination?
The Rabbinical School of Chicken Soup
May 21, 2026
Why didn’t the Torah provide any rituals for Shavuot? And why was it so important for Jews to create their own customs?
The Faculty Member Who Could Not Be Named
May 21, 2026
At Sarah Lawrence, a national newspaper agreed to shield a professor’s identity because they feared what their own institution might do if they were named defending Jewish students. That is the climate, in a single fact.
No Sleep ’til Brooklyn – A poem for Shavuot
May 21, 2026
It’s been seven weeks since Egypt and we’re ready for the next Big Thing…
A Bisl Torah — God’s Emergent Voice
May 21, 2026
With Torah as our guide, God’s voice emerges as we turn towards each other.
Fighting With a Winning Attitude
May 21, 2026
I was no longer on my laptop writing about Israel-hatred. I was on a street corner confronting that hatred. If I could write in my columns about the need for a winning attitude, this was now my chance to show it.
Print Issue: Smart Fighting | May 22, 2026
May 21, 2026
A new book by Melanie Phillips challenges the conventional wisdom and offers innovative ideas and practical tools to fight the global surge of antisemitism.
Lev Livitsky’s Very Complicated Second Act
May 21, 2026
“Out From Under” is filled with strong, dynamic women who all have something to teach Lev, but the author resists framing the novel as a feminist project.
Amid Surge in Antisemitism, Spanish Jewish Leader Builds Landmark Museum in Madrid
May 21, 2026
Hatchwell believes the most powerful response is not silence or retreat, but education.
Cantor Chayim Frenkel: Fulfilling the Promise of L’dor V’dor
May 21, 2026
Forty years mark a full biblical generation — a measure of time often associated with transformation, endurance and renewal. Few people embody that idea more fully than Cantor Chayim Frenkel.
Laura Stein Elected Chair of Israel Bonds’ National Campaign Advisory Council
May 21, 2026
Since its founding in 1951, Israel Bonds has focused on one mission: to generate financial support for the building and development of Israel’s economy.
The Boyle Heights Lessons Behind Villaraigosa’s Run for Governor
May 21, 2026
Villaraigosa is running for governor by arguing that California needs the lessons he says he learned there: dignity for working families, better schools, public safety, second chances, coalition building and transparent government that works.
Gatekeeping Our Future: How Sky-High Cost of Jewish Education Mirrors LA’s Housing Affordability Trap
May 21, 2026
Treating education costs and housing as parallel crises reveals a unified threat to demographic and cultural vitality.