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Israel’s debate over the death penalty for terrorists is usually framed as a practical argument about deterrence. Will execution prevent attacks by people already willing to die? Is it moral, effective, reversible?

But the most…

We must be defiant in the face of today’s anti-Semitism. We must fight against the myth that we are destined to be unwelcome strangers in the lands in which we sojourn.

I recall reading the historian Graetz who maintained that when the Jews…

Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said in declaring the latest public health epidemic….

Israel knows how to be “for ourselves.” But Hillel warned us about the next step: If I am only for myself, what am I?

Israel was born in a time when “WE” wasn’t a slogan. It…

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   Friday. Dec. 19th 2025

29 Kislev 5786

Not by Might but By Light!

Walls

Desperation

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Hopelessness

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Elation

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Joy

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Freedom

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Prison

Paranoia (Extreme Trauma…

United Hatzalah: The Ultimate Embodiment of the Edict, “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”

“וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ — Love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus…

A similar silence surrounds the eightieth anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Japan, the consequences of the atomic bombings are still reported daily; elsewhere, they are absorbed into narratives of necessity and closure. What is…

Banu chosech l’gareish, beyadeinu ohr va’esh
Kol echad hu ohr katan, v’chulanu ohr eitan
Surah choshech hal’ah sh’chor. Surah mipnei haor!

We come to chase away the darkness. In our hands are light and fire.
Each individual light is…

Amidst the Boston Jewish community’s largest annual Hanukkah party, I brought my kids to hear Hanukkah stories in American Sign Language, a combination of my two great passions in life: Judaism and disability inclusion. To the surprise of…

There is a sentence Jewish Facebook users have learned to recognize immediately. It arrives after reporting content that is openly antisemitic, violent in implication, or celebratory of Jewish hatred. It is always calm, procedural, and in most…