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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…

 It is a night of safeguarding (shimurim) for God, to bring them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is God’s, a safeguarding (shimurim) for all of the Children of Israel, throughout their generations. (Ex.12:42)

I am writing these…

JTA — It is a lonely time to be a North American Jew.

The last two years have seen frayed relationships with allies, intergenerational discord around Zionism and Gaza, and heightened antisemitism. Against the backdrop of the Iran war, deep…

Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic antizionist politician, was recently removed from Trump’s religious liberty Commission for hijacking a session about religious freedom to push anti-Israel propaganda. Her comments misrepresent the Bible’s…

When people try to make sense of Iran, they tend to reach for the usual explanations. They talk about nationalism, long-standing grievances, or the basic logic of how states survive. Those things matter, but they don’t really get to the…

At the Passover table, we will once again retell the story of liberation. We will speak of slavery and redemption, of Moses and Pharaoh, of a people who crossed from darkness into light.

I have vivid memories of my childhood Passovers in…

We have no more important or greater inner state than Passover. It marks an inner revolution that takes place within a person, where we receive the force of bestowal and connection, which we do not possess from the outset. We are all born and…

It’s now been three days since the deadline for Iranian ambassador Mohammad Reza Shibani to leave Lebanon expired, and no action to follow through on the expulsion order appears imminent. The decision was enacted by Foreign Minister Youssef…

Just days before Pesach – Passover – when Jews around the world recite avadim hayinu, that we were once slaves in Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and 60 other Israeli…

A report by Conib paints a troubling picture of the new reality of antisemitism in Brazil—what is being called “the new normal” of hatred against Jews in the country, which has been growing since Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7,…