Category: Other

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…

We, the Jews, make quite a big deal of the Passover holiday. According to one Pew Research survey, the Seder (a ritualized meal in which we retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt and the beginning of our journey to the Land of Israel) is…

On March 18, Senate Intelligence Committee members grilled National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard on a misguided question: Did Iran pose an imminent threat to the United States? Gabbard fumbled her response, saying that only the…

In recent weeks, social media has once again been buzzing about Barcelona’s District 11. Officially, this once-cosmopolitan Catalan city on the Mediterranean Sea is divided into ten districts comprising a total of seventy-three…

It is as though Netanyahu and Trump have no prior experience with a war against true believing Muslims. Gaza is still going on for 2 1/2 years: this war goes on despite Israel’s success in killing all the starting leadership, despite the…

Readers may wonder what a clinical psychologist is doing writing about gut bacteria, vagus nerve biology – and what any of it has to do with Seder. The short answer is that this is where the science of trauma has been heading for decades,…

Amidst the ongoing war in Lebanon, the Lebanese foreign ministry has declared Iran’s ambassador-designate Mohammad Reza Shibani persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country. Iran has told Lebanon that it wouldn’t comply and that…