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

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

A similar silence surrounds the eightieth anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Japan, the consequences of the atomic bombings are still reported daily; elsewhere, they are absorbed into narratives of necessity and closure. What is…

Banu chosech l’gareish, beyadeinu ohr va’esh
Kol echad hu ohr katan, v’chulanu ohr eitan
Surah choshech hal’ah sh’chor. Surah mipnei haor!

We come to chase away the darkness. In our hands are light and fire.
Each individual light is…

Amidst the Boston Jewish community’s largest annual Hanukkah party, I brought my kids to hear Hanukkah stories in American Sign Language, a combination of my two great passions in life: Judaism and disability inclusion. To the surprise of…

There is a sentence Jewish Facebook users have learned to recognize immediately. It arrives after reporting content that is openly antisemitic, violent in implication, or celebratory of Jewish hatred. It is always calm, procedural, and in most…

It took me decades to make sense of Hanukkah.

Growing up in the former Soviet Union, religion was not part of our existence. It had been stripped away and mostly outlawed. All Jews I knew were secular, although most had a strong Jewish…

How the Bundeswehr Integrates Islam and Judaism into Its Ranks

The issue of Muslim chaplaincy in the German armed forces is not new—but it is finally entering a concrete phase. This debate is all the more significant given the repeatedly…

The cooling of relations between Israel and Egypt since the outbreak of the war in Gaza has ignited the idea of a possible long-term deterioration of the partnership between the two countries. Pressures from Egyptian public opinion, deep…