A guest post by Talia Kaplan On the heels of Tisha B’Av, the commemoration of many calamities throughout Jewish history, we move from mourning to
After 12 years (first from 1996 to 1999, then continuously from 2009 to 2021) Benjamin Netanyahu is now the former Prime Minister of Israel, replaced
I am often asked whether or not I’m a “Zionist.” In truth, the answer is not easy. True, I am deeply committed to Israel and
An excerpt from Grossman’s speech at the 2006 Rabin memorial: ” It is not easy to take a look at ourselves this year. There was
Avi Garelick is the director of the Prozdor Hebrew High School at JTS and a student in the urban planning department of Hunter College. This
…for me who works at a desk in an office – or these days at home – the toil of my weekdays is mental, not physical. Screen time in particular has become the toil of the work week, the activity I so desperately crave separation from.
The bad news is, we’re still in a pandemic (wear your mask and get your shots, please). The good news is that because COVID remains
Back in 2013, the Pew Research Center released a “Portrait of Jewish Americans.” That survey and many of the numbers listed in it received quite
This week is yesod: which is foundation, but is also sometimes referred to as “bonding.” It is the offspring of hod and netzach – balancing
Time to Be Humble and Sit Down. For Week Five of the Omer, we focus on Hod, or humility. Given that the Hebrew word “hod”
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