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As Israel’s parliament marks its birthday today, Tu BiShvat, the New Year of the Trees, allow me to recommend a visit to the Knesset Museum in Jerusalem. It offers a space to remember what once was, and to imagine what might have been.

The…

The Ten Commandments begin in a way that surprises us. They do not open with laws or demands. They begin with a statement of identity and memory:

I am the L-rd your G-d, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of…

It’s been a busy winter. People I love are getting married, engaged, and bat mitzvahed. They want me to be there (they find me delightful!) and I am happy to comply. 

Thanks to the plethora of funky second-hand stores in my neighborhood, I…

Here I am living in my ancestral homeland. I have a lemon tree at the bottom of my steps that I pick from daily. There are pomegranate trees in the yard and grapevines up above. Today driving in the north I passed fields and fields of date…

I am a meteorologist and climate communicator. For me, talking about the weather and climate, whether on television, cellphones, or inside an emergency operations center, never gets old. I know that the better I communicate a weather risk,…

Some of my most important lessons in life I learned from Jewish verses about trees.

1. From the following, I learned that I should be an environmental activist, working to help preserve the world:

In the hour when the Holy one, blessed be He,…

I feel like there’s a certain value in being born Jewish. Belonging isn’t a question and your loyalty is almost always unearned but copious. When you’re born into an ethnic group, especially a minority group, you cling to the other…

Saudi Arabia and the limits of regional strategy

In a recent report, Turkiye Today, citing sources close to Saudi military leadership, stated that Ankara has no intention of joining any Saudi–Pakistani defense pact and that cooperation…

African and Jewish Americans have been bound together in a deeply intertwined relationship despite their historical, religious and cultural differences and divergent priorities.

Since the formation of the American republic more than two…

In a recent New York Times article, “Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT,” it was reported that websites in China are selling SAT test questions and that software has been developed to bypass test protections and security…