Like many Jewish mothers, Daniella Levine Cava may be expecting tensions over Israel at the Rosh Hashanah table.
But for her, the personal truly is political: Levine Cava is the mayor of Miami-Dade County, and her son is…
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How the NYC mayoral candidates are marking Rosh Hashanah
This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There are 43 days to the election.
Speculation abounds that Mayor…
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The Blogs: Praying for peace | Rachel Sharansky Danziger
On Rosh Hashanah, we acknowledge God’s kingship.
And if I truly acknowledge Him —
If I truly believe that God is the Almighty King —
Then there is no reason not to ask Him for what I really want. There is no reason to lower my…
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Tucker Carlson tells story about murder of Jesus at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, igniting criticism
Tucker Carlson, the far-right personality who has repeatedly drawn criticism for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, recounted the plot to murder Jesus during his speech at the memorial service for Charlie…
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The Blogs: Moments of light | Sarah Tuttle-Singer
This Rosh Hashanah, as we prepare for a new year, I feel a weight that’s almost too heavy to bear.
In the neverending middle of this war, how can we celebrate when hostages are still trapped in darkness, terror filling their days? I think…
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The Blogs: I want to reclaim the watermelon | Chavi Feldman
I am a Judaic artist. Recently I’ve been working on a line of prints for kids’ rooms. I designed the aleph bet that is designed in a way that creates the shape of the map of Israel. On top or next to each Hebrew letter I added an icon…
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The Blogs: The Gaza Impact Effect | Yehudi Sabbagh
I live in Guatemala. One afternoon, while having lunch in the kitchen, I was watching the news. The screen showed images of Gaza. Our cook looked up and asked, “Oh my God, where is that?” I answered, “It’s in Israel,” knowing she…
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The Blogs: The Shofar: A Source of Memory and Meaning | Mordechai Silverstein
Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Teruah, the day of the sounding of the horn. But what instrument fulfills this mitzvah? The Torah itself does not specify, entrusting the Oral Torah (Torah she’ba‘al peh) to provide clarification.
The sages…
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The Blogs: The Shofar Calls Us Here: Letting Go and Living Now | Stephen Stern
No matter how many times I’ve heard it, the blast of the shofar startles me. It cuts through the synagogue, through the chatter in my mind, through the weight I’m carrying from the past year. In that moment, I awake. The shofar doesn’t…
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Red or Blue?
I: Before we begin this last section of the interview—this final chapter—I want to ask you something first. What are the exact prompts that anyone would have to give you in order to reproduce this experiment? ChatGPT-4: The sequence is…
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