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Hate thrives in the shadows. Safety begins with transparency — and accountability follows.

That is why the Maryland General Assembly and Governor Wes Moore should move swiftly to pass HB 14 County Boards of Education – Bullying,…

The year was 536 BC, the third year of the reign of King Cyrus the Great. Daniel was on the bank of Tigris River, fasting and mourning, confessing the sins of the Israelites when the Angel Gabriel approached him and said that his journey was…

Israel or the United States should again bomb Iran’s conventional missile and any remaining nuclear weapons development facilities in the near future with overwhelming force. Facilities used by the Basij and other internal security services…

Beshalach 2026 — The Digital Sea and the Desert of Attention

Last night you woke up at 3:47 a.m. Not from a nightmare, but from a notification. You checked it. Then another. Then another. By the time you tried to sleep again, you had read…

The calendar says it’s time to celebrate the birthday of trees. Here in frigid Boston, tree limbs sag with two inches of snow. It’s a jarring contrast. But then Tu B’shvat has always been an incongruous holiday for me.

Long ago, in my…

How African Systems of Learning Preceded and Surpassed Europe’s for Centuries

Series Introduction

History is often taught as if formal education followed a single European path—from classical Greece to medieval monasteries to Renaissance…

For more than two years, one of the most morally explosive questions of the Gaza war has often been framed as if it had only two possible answers: either you “believe Hamas,” or you “stand with Israel.” The dead, in this framework,…

Dalia and Jean had been talking about Israel for years.

Dalia, who is Jewish, felt an increasing pull to visit, especially after the attacks of October 7. Jean, born in Haiti and raised in Brooklyn, felt something very different. Traveling to…

A few days ago, I found myself reading the news with a sense of profound shock and deep sadness as I learned about the Israeli Ministry of Education’s decision to cancel the Devorah Omer Prize for Children’s and Youth Literature. As…

Zionism: The Jewish Right to Self-Determination

Zionism is often misrepresented, deliberately distorted, or reduced to slogans that strip it of history and meaning. At its core, Zionism is simple, ancient, and profoundly Jewish: it is the…