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How do people define “news”? That seems to be simple: what someone recently did or said. What we tend to forget (or not realize) is that the news can be heavily affected by what is not said or done. Here are three current Israeli news…

Every night in the Hashkivenu Bracha, we ask God to spread his Sukkah of peace over us: וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵֽינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶךָ.

What do you imagine, when you say these words? Do you imagine a Sukkah over you?…

After Amer Ghalib became the most prominent Muslim politician in the country to endorse Donald Trump for president last year, he did so on pro-Palestinian grounds. And he was rewarded with a plum position: the…

How does a new thing begin? By what means does order emerge from the void? To read the beginning of the book of Genesis, it seems a matter of divine will, God’s decision to speak and say, “let light be.” But perhaps there is something…

“וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת־נֹחַ” — “And God remembered Noah.”
Ons leef in die tyd van verskeur (We live in the time of tornness)
Men obsik yufik vol püki! — (Volapük: “Man again speaks many…

We live in a time of profound disconnection. But the way we care for the dead, and thereby each other, can teach us how to live with greater connection and compassion.

We don’t usually think of social change starting in the taharah room….

Last week, the police and the government had a chance to prove that promises on tackling antisemitism in the UK were not simply hollow words. It should come as no surprise that they failed. Based upon a decision from the city of…

October 23, 2025

I know that the war has just ended – less than a couple of weeks ago. I am aware that what I am writing here is coming before its time. It is clear that both Israelis and Palestinians have been deeply affected by trauma,…

Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) was a state sponsored terrorist action against Jewish people, businesses, homes, and synagogues, a pogrom planned and executed by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany, 9–10…

The next war won’t begin with rockets. It’ll begin with rhetoric.

Even before a shot is fired, the words are already in formation — settler violence, illegal outposts, West Bank resistance. The phrases are primed for deployment, the…