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After all that we have been through the past few years here in Israel, the timing of this current war before Passover comes with many trials and tribulations, alongside many miracles deserving of gratitude.

It seemed appropriate to add a 2026…

On Tuesday, March 24^th, thousands of women and men marched in the streets of Rome to support the Mothers’ Call for peace, an initiative of Women Wage Peace and our Palestinian partners, Women of the Sun.

Unlike Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, Judaism does not have much of a missionary impulse. That is why there are so few Jews in the world. Mormons, who very actively seek converts, already outnumber Jews even though Mormons have been around…

Passover is coming, and the warnings we once ignored feel impossible to ignore now.

Twenty-four years ago tonight, families sat down for a Passover Seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya. They weren’t soldiers and they weren’t targets. They…

Like many people, I first heard about what happened at the recent Smol Emuni (SE) US conference through an article in The Forward. That piece sparked something of a firestorm, largely because of the way it described the treatment of Rav Shaul…

By now most of my readers know that I grew up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s most of which time was before the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948.  In the mid-1940s the population of the Bronx was somewhere between…

A Holocaust commemoration was canceled during Holocaust Memorial Week.

That fact alone should give us pause.

Not because it reflects a bureaucratic misstep, but because it illustrates something deeper: the persistence of old Jew-hatred…

Statistics show that “around 412 million children aged 17 or younger live in extreme poverty (less than a day) in low-income countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa and conflict-affected…

The Shabbos before Passover is called “Shabbos Hagadol,” the Great Sabbath. What is it about this Shabbos that makes it worthy of such a title and makes it “greater” than the other sabbaths of the year?

On the verge of our liberation…

The most famous question we ask on Seder night is: “Why is this night different from all other nights?” But the truth is that every Seder night is different, because every year we are different—and so is the world.

This year, that…