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If an American tourist visits Lithuania, walks through the state’s genocide museum—a museum dedicated almost entirely to Soviet crimes against Lithuanians, not to the murder of the 96.4% of Lithuanian Jews who were annihilated—absorbs…

An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office

I am writing to you from the Netherlands as a woman who has carried Israel in her heart for most of her life. My connection is not abstract or ideological alone. It is deeply personal, shaped…

Before Passover, Jews perform a strangely delicate act. We search the house by candlelight for crumbs. Not for furniture. Not for walls. Not for the house itself. The ritual assumes something politically profound: a home can contain danger,…

Moses was an unlikely Jewish hero. His very name evokes the Nile, the heart of Egyptian power and paganism. Even when God called upon him to lead, he doubted his own abilities. And yet, that unlikely hero stood up to an empire and led the…

In the spirit of Pesach — a night shaped by the number four: four questions, four children, four cups — this piece offers one question and four possible answers.

Tonight is the night of questions. We don’t merely permit them; we sanctify…

The story of Passover isn’t about the leaving of Egypt—it’s what happens after. Because the real test wasn’t the escape—it’s about the conviction to keep moving forward, no matter what, even in the harsh conditions of the…

On Wednesday night, Jews worldwide sit down for the annual Seder, the festive Passover meal we have celebrated every year for about 3,000 years. Before the meal begins, we read from an ancient text known as the Haggadah, with each guest reading…

The French police thwarted a bomb attack outside the Bank of America headquarters in Paris on March 28. Officers arrested a 17-year-old suspect of Somali origin as he attempted to ignite an improvised explosive device near the building…

Israel’s decision to expand the death penalty, now approved by the Knesset, is already being framed by critics as a moral collapse. It is nothing of the sort. It is what happens when a country is pushed, repeatedly and relentlessly, into a…

A Jewish family goes to check on their Zeidi in his new nursing home.  “How do you like it here, Sabah?”, they ask.  “Oh, it’s marvelous, simply marvelous; everyone is so respectful and courteous.  Would you believe it, there’s a…