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Europe in 2025 is no longer the confident, self-assured continent it once was. What appears on the surface as a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations or student protests is, in reality, the symptom of a far deeper process: a civilizational…

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks said, “Judaism is an extraordinary this-worldly, this-life-focused religion.” Rabbi Sacks argued that other religions stress rewards and punishments of the afterlife, Judaism focuses on practices and deeds in….

The Jewish community in America is experiencing what arguably might be considered the worst antisemitism in this country in the past 100 years.  But is the current climate similar to what was happening in Germany during the 1930s, and should…

Eulogy for Michelle & Robert Reiner

by Rabbi Anchelle Perl Director of Chabad of Mineola

We gather with hearts that are shattered. There are moments when a rabbi is expected to offer comfort, perspective, or meaning—and then there are…

Universities once understood neutrality not as indifference, but as discipline.

To be neutral was not to deny moral stakes; it was to insist that moral claims be argued rather than assumed, tested rather than enforced. The modern university…

You may have seen or heard some of the recent comments going around on the right. These are things that people have said at events like Turning Point or that important people like Tucker Carlson have said more and more often. These comments…

Australians today have woken up on Christmas morning to the disturbing news of yet another antisemitic attack, this time in Melbourne. A car with a built on menorah on its roof from Hanukkah has been firebombed overnight. This incident took…

In some places it comes early, in others late. Some mark it on the twenty-fifth of December, some wait until January, and some observe it quietly, without date or decoration, as one observes a memory. This is a region that does not agree…

Rivka Sassover Peled  told me about what happened to her mother in Trieste when the Nazis invaded Italy. Her mother, Hemda Sassover, was a young Jewish woman living on her own, so her best friend Angelica offered her refuge with her family….

National trauma announces itself in public spaces: sirens, headlines, funerals, protests, and speeches. But its deepest work happens elsewhere.

It happens behind closed doors.

After October 7th, Israel’s public square carried the visible…