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Because the answer is so clear, I do not propose to engage in an extended analysis.  Speaking to Canadians is boring. Listening to Canadians is monotonous and pedestrian. Reviewing the history of Canada is like watching paint dry. …

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner will host a Passover seder with Jewish community leaders Thursday in Maine, including the state chair of the liberal pro-Israel lobby J Street, in a show of Jewish outreach following…

“Everything you do for me, you take from me,” words that were shared in the context of elder care services at a recent conference.  I must admit that I looked at those words on the screen and felt a series of emotions.  The first was a…

Each year, at Passover, Jews gather to tell the story of liberation. We speak of Pharaoh, of oppression, of fear, and of the long road out of Egypt. We eat the bread of affliction, ask questions, remember the cry of the enslaved, and repeat…

The China–Pakistan five point plan gestures in the right direction but misunderstands the moment. Wars like this do not end because diplomats urge restraint. They end when the terms of continued conflict become more costly than the terms of…

The fracture in Israeli society is not a failure of leadership or civility. It’s a war between four incompatible visions of what this country is actually for — held together by one thing, and increasingly nothing else.

Every country has…

The Haggadah is the most rewritten text in Jewish life, not because the story changes, but because we do. Every year, we arrive with new questions, new wounds, new hopes. And so, we search, sometimes urgently, for a way to make the ancient…

If they had not stormed our borders,
And brought terror and bloodshed to our doorsteps —
Dayenu.

If we had only been prepared,
Not abandoned by our leaders —
Dayenu.

If they had not come for the dancers at dawn, and raped and murdered and…

The art of asking difficult questions is one of the most powerful pedagogical tools we have—both in general, and at Hillel in particular. Anyone who has facilitated a Jewish Learning Fellowship (JLF) knows that choosing the right…