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TRUMP YOU ARE WRONG AND MR. BIBI YOU ARE WRONG

I would like to start this blog by reminding everyone that Donald Trump is responsible for the return of almost all of our hostages, dead and alive. He deserves much credit for that.

Now to get…

Is New Year’s “just a celebration” — or a sign of how easily we slip into someone else’s story?
Written before October 7 but relevant now, it explores the proiximity of the10th of Tevet and New Year’s Day — which always fall in…

One of the cruelest aspects of chronic illness is its unpredictability: the sense that, at any moment, life can be upended by pain, anxiety, and uncertainty. For millions living with Crohn’s disease and other forms of inflammatory bowel…

A month ago, I knew about as much about Somaliland as I do about delivering baby camels—which is to say, almost nothing.

When I heard that Israel had just recognized Somaliland—the first country in the world to do so—I became curious….

Two Residencies: Motherhood as Clinical Mastery

For a full-time Doctor of Nursing Practice student specializing in midwifery and a mother of four young children, winter break is less of a vacation and more of a step-up in acuity; the demands…

Bangladeshi Independence: A Story of Language, Identity, and Self-Determination

The story of Israel’s founding in 1948 is often compared to other post–World War II state formations—but another remarkable example happened at the same…

Yaakov Avinu’s last words recover a maternal and conservative ethic of guidance, inheritance, and restraint.

Parshas Vayechi is not a loud parsha. It does not announce itself with fire or spectacle. There are no miracles that suspend…

When you see your boyfriend in a blonde wig, wearing your grandmother’s bra stuffed to capacity, you know he’s the one.

A few months earlier, a new guy had moved into my friends’ kosher apartment at law school after his former roommate…

I just finished writing ADIR’s first impact report. For someone whose ADD is both an ace card and, at times, genuinely hard to live with for me and those around me, completing a 26-page document that required synthesizing two years of work…