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Jewish Life Is Facing a Reckoning — and That’s Not a Bad Thing

Now Is A Time of Clarification, Not Collapse

By Rabbi Anchelle Perl

At moments of pressure, societies often mistake exposure for erosion. When things become uncomfortable,…

I lead a Jewish street art movement that took shape in the months following October 7, 2023. Together with a partner and a small team, I printed and distributed more than 400,000 Kidnapped stickers after the hostage poster movement began to…

When January comes around, seasonal depression accelerates into the anxiety of self-improvement and its anticipated failure.

For millions of post-Soviet people around the world, Novi God is a kind of antithesis to the cooperative delusions of…

The January 3, 2026 extraction of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces marks one of the most dramatic American interventions in Latin America in decades. For the first time since the Cold War, a sitting Western Hemisphere leader aligned with…

After living in Israel for years, time stopped meaning the same thing.

January first now passes quietly for me.

I notice it. I acknowledge it. And then I move on.

That reaction would have surprised me years ago. I grew up in France, where…

First published in German in 1944,

It was with an immense sense of achievement (and a huge sigh of relief) that I finished this classic, which I read over a period of several months. This weighty tome comprising almost 1,500 pages of…

As we all know, President Trump loves receiving awards, even if one comes from a leader whom he not so long ago apparently considered “obsessive” and “a deep, dark son-of-a-b____.”

As Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu…

Temple’s destruction stemmed from sinat chinam (baseless hatred), baseless hatred, and internal rot, including violent factionalism between the camps of Shammai and Hillel (Talmud Shabbat 17a). Priestly nepotism under Roman influence turned…

I remember sitting at my kitchen table a few years ago, staring at my bank app after yet another price increase announcement. Groceries were up, electricity was creeping higher, and somehow my salary hadn’t gotten the memo. It wasn’t a…