Personal reflections on the past year, and a surprise story for this week’s Torah portion.
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Taste Buds with Deb – Episode 116
Itay Benda, an Israeli singer, has found a unique way to advocate for Israel.
“Catalogue of Noses,” a 12-minute musical short, is a sharp and surprisingly devastating portrait of what happens when young girls internalize the idea that their natural face is a liability.
The people who write in this book are all wounded souls. Gone forever is the glib and certain faith that they may once have had, and in its place are the scars and the aches that will never go away.
The Braid will produce recipe videos and a filmed Shabbat conversation, accompanied by a nationally distributed Shabbat dinner discussion guide.
Arad Levertov had a bold idea: making everyday essentials more affordable through responsible lending.
Taragin’s volume is not a conventional academic history of his mentor. Rather, it offers a compendium of warm and wise anecdotes and lessons he learned studying under Amital.
The Community Hebrew Program at VBS, according to VBS, “will continue AJU’s legacy of enriching Jewish life through accessible Hebrew study resources.”
No matter where you’re born or how you were raised, one thing is certain — the more vegetables you place on the table, the more your family will learn to love them and expect them.
The Jewish trauma we thought was buried has come roaring back, four generations after the Holocaust.
The genocide of the Jews is turned morally inside out. The victims are transformed into the villains — making it not only appropriate, but righteous, to have another go at ridding the world of them.
The Israeli public may be ready for a deal. But like most things in Israel, support comes with conditions and caveats.
The West is at an inflection point. Will it continue to submit, as Douglas Murray has put it, to a form of fascism that pretends to be a religion? Or will Zohran become the bridge too far — the Islamic zealot who forces the U.S. to finally say: Enough.
Resurrecting the middle class represents the nation’s foremost challenge, and accomplishing this objective requires a concerted commitment and decisive action.
The Palestinians will never be free by killing Jews. They will only be free when they free themselves from their eliminationist mindset.
Talk to any person in extreme old age who is thriving, and you find someone who is endlessly curious.
The Carlson I see now is unrecognizable—a man who cloaks ignorance in faux patriotism and traffics in rhetoric that is unmistakably antisemitic.
It may be time to move Israel Studies to a hospitable home off-campus to offer a new generation a rigorous and nuanced curriculum that may be lacking at college today.
Over the past year-and-a-half, I’ve witnessed something deeply disturbing: empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”
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