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The Virtues of Fresh Salads
October 7, 2026
After weeks of holiday feasting and heavy meals, the new Jewish year is a perfect time to reset, to nourish our bodies with food that is wholesome and still tastes delicious.
Olympic Legend Moved By Hostage Painting
October 7, 2026
Dwight Stones, who was born in Los Angeles and is Jewish, has long been a strong supporter of Israel.
On Oct. 7, Reflections on Remembrance
October 7, 2026
Even as we mourn everything we’ve lost, let us also remember the moments of hope and healing — moments that restore our faith in humanity’s promise.
Rosner’s Domain | Remembering Oct. 7, Politically Speaking
October 7, 2026
October 7 is a day that already reverberates powerfully in the consciousness of every Jew. But the meaning of it has yet to be deciphered.
When Peace Becomes Possible: A Lesson from the South Caucasus
October 7, 2026
For Israel, and for everyone who believes that seemingly permanent conflicts need not remain permanent, what is unfolding in the South Caucasus deserves to be recognized, encouraged and protected.
Mamdani Uses Oct. 7 to Accuse Israel of the Worst Crime in History
October 7, 2026
Even on this singular day to honor the victims of Oct. 7, the mayor kept the poison coming.
The Other Shoe
October 7, 2026
I stood there in awe, my eyes blurring with tears, listening to the hush and experiencing the unnamed. I couldn’t tell which was stranger: feeling the rainforest in me, or me in the rainforest. And then my phone rang.
A New Graphic Novel Re-Presents the Bible
October 7, 2026
Following on the heels of his earlier presentations of the Passover Haggadah and the books of Esther and Jonah, Gorfinkel, known to his friends as “Gorf,” along with Israeli illustrator Yael Nathan and a team of specialized artists, have produced “The Koren Magerman Tanakh Graphic Novel: Bereshit Vol. 1,” which renders the first two Torah portions in Genesis, Bereshit and Noah, in dynamically engaging visual narrative form.
Flydubai Flight FZ1073 and the Indomitability of the Jews
October 7, 2026
FZ1073 has a message for the world. For the terrorists striving to take innumerable Israeli lives and make the survivors’ lives unbearable, the message is that your love of death will never diminish our love of life nor make us any less determined to defend it.
Achievement, Relationship, Purpose
October 7, 2026
A career becomes more rewarding when it supports rather than consumes the rest of life. Wealth becomes more meaningful when it creates security and enables generosity.
Oct. 7 Haunts the Campus
October 7, 2026
Students like me have come to understand that pro-Israel students being othered is the new campus normal. It shouldn’t be.
My Three Sons
October 7, 2026
I just completed a project I started in November 2023: taking each of my three sons on vacation separately.
Miracle at Fort Knox
October 7, 2026
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.
Bass, Raman, Israel
October 7, 2026
Raman repeated her previously-stated opinion that the Israeli military’s efforts to protect its country’s people from terrorist attack constituted genocide. Bass said that it did not.
Torah Portion: B’ray’sheet
October 7, 2026
In the beginning God creates the heavens — the universe — something very, very, very big.
The Genocide Case Against Hamas
October 6, 2026
Was a single day’s attack, no matter how savage, too brief to qualify as genocide? It turns out that duration has never been the legal test.
The Match That Oct. 7 Struck
October 4, 2026
The war in Gaza may be in abeyance, but Islamist expansionist ideology has shown great gumption and forward movement. All the crazies have come out since October 7, 2023.
Will Sept. 30 Go Down in History Like Oct. 7?
October 3, 2026
Perhaps Sept. 30 showed up right before we paid tribute to Oct. 7 to deliver this message: Remember the tragedies but never forget the miracles.