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In August 2023, just four months after Sudan’s civil war erupted, I left Israel, my refuge country, for eastern Chad. Then, as a staff member of HIAS, the global Jewish humanitarian organization that has been serving Darfuri refugees in…

Every year, we sit at the Seder table and tell the story of leaving Egypt. We recall slavery, the miracles, and the moment of liberation. It is presented as a completed arc. Our people were oppressed, then they were free.

The Torah does not…

Let me take a guess.

You oppose the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

You see it as political, heavy-handed, and a superpower flexing its influence to reshape geography for its own purposes. And to be fair,…

Dear Elijah,

Every year we gather at Passover and welcome you to join us. Some of us prepare our tables for you with beautiful Passover dishes, silver, and linens. Our grandparents, our bubbes and zaydes, used them and then gave them to us to…

Every year, in the days before Yom HaShoah, members of Beth Tzedec’s Men’s Club deliver yellow yahrzeit candles to the doors of Jewish homes across our neighbourhood. Beth Tzedec helped found this practice. It is now observed by Jewish…

Time spent in a shelter raises an unsettling question: are we simply at war—or witnessing something larger?

As I sat in the shelter of my building in Jerusalem, I heard a sound I had never heard before—a low, menacing roar overhead,…

This post is first in a series that will explore what it is like to be a Zionist in an antizionist small town in upstate New York.

Every year we recount the story of all of the greatest rabbis who gathered in Bnei Brak to share in the Seder together:

מַעֲשֶׂה בְרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר וְרַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ וְרַבִּי…

After the cruel injustices that we have seen perpetrated upon the people of Iran by their dictatorial government, with over 30,000 murdered over just the last few months, the anti-Israel crowd has remained silent and chosen to ignore the…

Every great story has the same shape: a beginning, a conflict, and a resolution. We feel this instinctively. We lean forward during the tension and exhale when it breaks.

We are living inside a story right now. Not a metaphor. An actual…