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There are moments when Jewish parents sit at the Shabbat table and realize that history has stopped being something they explain — and has become something they must prepare their children to live inside.

The Chanukah massacre at Bondi…

In an appeal for donations from November in the Austrian weekly newspaper Falter, Amnesty International chose the banner “we call genocide by its name.” Amnesty’s recently published report about the atrocities committed by Hamas on…

As we celebrate Chanukah, a cloud hangs over us.

The recent terror attack in Australia has shaken the Jewish world, casting a shadow over a season meant for joy. Yet Chanukah was never meant to deny darkness. It was meant to confront…

It was September 2023, about one and a half years after Russia’s War on Ukraine, when I touched down in Israel to begin my studies as an international student from America. Arriving at my new home, my grandparents’ apartment in Bat…

There is a shelf in the corner market that doesn’t make sense.

It isn’t alphabetical or regional or arranged by any system a wholesaler would recognize. Polish pickles sit beside Armenian spice mix. Italian pasta leans against Iraqi amba….

Two weeks ago, I was boarding an early morning flight to Chicago full of excitement about the journey I was embarking upon. The truth is, however, that the journey had begun in 2024 when several young Jews and Catholics had been selected to…

Few terms carry as profound a historical significance as “The Righteous Among the Nations.” It designates non-Jews who, during the Holocaust, risked their own lives to save Jews from persecution and murder. The title is precisely defined,…

In the aftermath of the Bondi Beach attack, one word surfaced repeatedly in headlines and official statements: isolated.

It is a word meant to calm. To reassure. To close the book quickly and move on.

But calling acts of violence against Jews…

Vincent suffered so that his admirers could enjoy
what he could never sell, but brilliantly painted,
suffering, which can be thought painful, a successful ploy,
even if its victims haven’t by the Church been sainted.

Sunflowers: a favorite…