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In 2025, Jews are being attacked for being Jewish in places that once promised “never again.”

A Hanukkah celebration turns into a massacre in Australia.

A synagogue is targeted on Yom Kippur in Manchester.

A father is beaten in front of…

A few weeks ago, Randi Weingarten published an op-ed urging Jewish leaders to work with educators to fight antisemitism rather than “demonize teachers.” For many of us, Jewish public school teachers, parents, and advocates, the piece was…

The Double Rise of Yosef. Here is a whisper in the words the Torah chooses. In Vayeshev, when the brothers drag Yosef out of the cistern, it says simply “Vayalehu Min Ha’bor” – they raise him from the pit, seemingly with a struggle to…

Moral Vanity at Jewish Expense

Public life has grown accustomed to the chant. It appears at rallies and in lecture theatres, on placards and timelines, its rhythm offering the chanter a sensation of borrowed virtue, a moral halo available on…

Israel’s debate over the death penalty for terrorists is usually framed as a practical argument about deterrence. Will execution prevent attacks by people already willing to die? Is it moral, effective, reversible?

But the most…

We must be defiant in the face of today’s anti-Semitism. We must fight against the myth that we are destined to be unwelcome strangers in the lands in which we sojourn.

I recall reading the historian Graetz who maintained that when the Jews…

Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said in declaring the latest public health epidemic….

Israel knows how to be “for ourselves.” But Hillel warned us about the next step: If I am only for myself, what am I?

Israel was born in a time when “WE” wasn’t a slogan. It…

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   Friday. Dec. 19th 2025

29 Kislev 5786

Not by Might but By Light!

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Paranoia (Extreme Trauma…

United Hatzalah: The Ultimate Embodiment of the Edict, “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”

“וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ — Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus…