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Once I was lost, then I was found, then I got lost again.

Had a bad day,  got in my own way- thought it would never end.

Funny thing, when you lose yourself …  and leave so many friends

Illusions shatter- reality matters and broken hearts…

Imagine the pain, betrayal, and anger you would feel if those who were closest to you turned against you, battered you, and then sold you to slavers who took you far from home and placed you into years of servitude. Decades later, you…

Yesterday, a short real-estate news item caught my eye: members of the Jewish Syrian community in New York had purchased two apartment buildings in Jerusalem. For some readers, this was just another headline in a long list of overseas Jewish…

I recently visited the Israeli community of Gevaot. As you enter, a warm breeze hits your face and the quiet settles in. Modest homes line the paths, neighbors passing one another without hurry. Only two places break the calm: a school and a…

Europe in 2025 is no longer the confident, self-assured continent it once was. What appears on the surface as a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations or student protests is, in reality, the symptom of a far deeper process: a civilizational…

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks said, “Judaism is an extraordinary this-worldly, this-life-focused religion.” Rabbi Sacks argued that other religions stress rewards and punishments of the afterlife, Judaism focuses on practices and deeds in….

The Jewish community in America is experiencing what arguably might be considered the worst antisemitism in this country in the past 100 years.  But is the current climate similar to what was happening in Germany during the 1930s, and should…

Eulogy for Michelle & Robert Reiner

by Rabbi Anchelle Perl Director of Chabad of Mineola

We gather with hearts that are shattered. There are moments when a rabbi is expected to offer comfort, perspective, or meaning—and then there are…

Universities once understood neutrality not as indifference, but as discipline.

To be neutral was not to deny moral stakes; it was to insist that moral claims be argued rather than assumed, tested rather than enforced. The modern university…

You may have seen or heard some of the recent comments going around on the right. These are things that people have said at events like Turning Point or that important people like Tucker Carlson have said more and more often. These comments…