Category: Other

The future of assassination is here — and it is cheap, deniable, and flying over our heads. Drones are no longer toys. They are the new weapons of dictators and terrorists, designed to terrorize civilians, cripple infrastructure, and even…

Judy Maltz, a journalist for Haaretz, has just returned from a project involving American Jewish college kids; the object was to find out what October 7, 2023, means to them, has it changed their regard for Israel, etc. It’s a vast topic if…

A rabbi’s quiet mission to revive a forgotten breed from Jerusalem — and to remind us that compassion, too, is a form of Torah.

The weekly Torah portion Noah feels deeply personal to me. It is not only about survival, but about the sacred…

The Chinese government officially reacted to the attacks on October 8 through a statement by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “China is closely following the escalation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. We…

Two days after Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove delivered a sermon urging congregants to vote against Zohran Mamdani, rabbis across the country were asked to sign a letter quoting him.

By the time it was published Wednesday, 650…

I should have made the call. Now he’s gone.

A great person, a mensch (a person of integrity), one of my most important teachers, Rabbi Michell Chefitz (z’l – may his memory always be for blessings), died earlier this week.

The last…

There is a question that returns like a tide to anyone who has lived inside the great silence: Can the Infinite contemplate the Infinite without an other—without a face across from which to catch its own light? To say “other” where all…

When gunmen attacked the mission in Yelwata, Benue State on June 13–14, 2025, they slaughtered between 100 and 200 Christian villagers and displaced some 3,000. Entire families were incinerated, children and mothers among the charred ruins,…

I hobble over to my office, fall into my desk chair, and turn on YouTube. I click on the Sam Aronow channel and listen to Sam Aronow teach about the Fifth Aliyah.

So you may ask, “Who is Sam Aronow?

He’s a talented filmmaker with an…

Context as a refuge from clarity

What does remembrance look like when the cameras arrive? Who lights the candles, who lays the wreaths, who recites the adjectives on cue? The West has turned grief into a choreography that rarely falters. Yet…