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The question we must all address is:

What kind of president of the United States would create and post an AI-generated video of himself wearing an imperial crown and dumping massive amounts of feces from a “King Trump” jet onto No Kings…

I don’t live in Israel. There are no sirens outside my window. I don’t check the news to find out if my city still exists.

But when I open my phone, it’s as if the war — which is still very much ongoing — has spilled through the…

As the Israel-Gaza war, hopefully, comes to an end after two long years, global leaders met in Egypt to sign the ceasefire deal and mark the end of the fighting

Among the heads of state present were Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán,…

“Acharei HaChagim” which translates as after the festivals is a popular refrain in Israel at this time of year. In essence, it means things will not get done from Rosh Hashana until after Simchat Torah.

I would like to look at expression…

The “Weekend Update” segment of last Saturday’s Saturday Night Live featured an interview with a fictional New Yorker, Rhonda LaCenzo, about her anxieties over Zohran Mamdani becoming the city’s next mayor.  Many of her objections to…

There are moments you never forget.

Moments in history so searing, you remember exactly where you were when you heard.

For some here this morning, it was President Kennedy’s assassination. You remember where you were standing, who told you,…

Reflections from a Former Training Captain on the 2020 Harris Presidential Campaign in San Diego

I volunteered as a training captain for Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign in San Diego. At a fundraiser hosted by a local women’s…

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I always began High Holy Day sermons with a joke. That was not as easy as it sounds, because the opening gag needed to be clean, funny, and relevant, and it could only be told once. When my limited repertoire of such…

Hanukkah is the next great holiday, and I remember a story my mother shared many years ago when I was much younger.

My mother told me her story about a strange and wonderful miracle that happened during the height of the Depression. She…

It’s 5:13 a.m., Monday, October 13, 2025, and I’ve already been awake for the better part of three hours. Like many, many Jews both in Israel and around the world, I can’t sleep. I’ve been following the news on my phone through…