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Members of Leading as Equals: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from across Israel who work together to advance the rights, participation, and influence of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in society. (Leading as Equals via Facebook)

Yana Mibashev

I have an intellectual disability. I demand equal rights

As an Israeli citizen, I am asking the new Knesset to replace years of promises with laws that guarantee our independence and dignity

At Camp Koby and Josef in Kfar Pines, Israel, August 2026. (courtesy)

Jonathan Nierman

A stranger’s heart is beating in my chest

I needed a transplant. I got one, a week after October 7, so I’m putting my eternal gratitude to helping those who have suffered incalculable loss

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during the March for Israel on the National Mall, Washington D.C., November 14, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Joel Rubin

The Hakeem Jeffries moment is great for the Jews

The New York congressman in line to become Speaker of the House has the chops to lead a divided Democratic caucus – even when Israel is on the agenda

Illustrative: Bedouin women wait to cast their votes at a polling station in the town of Rahat, Israel on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 for parliament elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Mirvat Abu Hadoba-Frieh

My Bedouin mother wears a niqab. She voted for a better future

She tended sheep in the Negev sun so I could get an education, but the sight of a veiled woman casting a ballot fills some Israelis with suspicion

Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) and Abraham Joshua Heschel (2nd from front right), march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965 (Wikimedia commons)

As a Black mother of a Jewish son, I know solidarity is not simple

Our two communities don’t have to agree on everything. We need to show up for one another – especially when our differences make that difficult

Kally Rubin Kislowicz

Yom HaAliyah: Words fail me

I have so much to say about moving to Israel — and even more ways to embarrass my kids by saying it wrong

Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is the sole incoming anti-Zionist senator. (Photo: El-Sayed speaks at an election night event, November 4, 2026, in Detroit. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Morris Levy

Israel hasn’t lost America – not even the Democrats

The loudest anti-Zionist voices are still a small minority. A post-Netanyahu government could find far more willing partners in Washington than Israelis expect

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Nov 11, 2026, 3:50 PM

Justice Is More Than Redistribution

LOVE MADE SOCIAL — COLUMN 15 OF 16 Justice is often reduced to distribution. Churches and policymakers ask who receives money, who pays taxes, and who gains access to housing, education, health care, or employment. These questions matter, but a...

Nov 11, 2026, 3:50 PM

Ending U.S. Aid, Preserving the Alliance: Trump’s Israel Ruse

Donald Trump's declaration on Election Day that the United States would end its approximately $4 billion in annual military assistance to Israel was immediately portrayed as a historic rupture in American-Israeli relations. Critics on the left saw a potential...

Nov 11, 2026, 3:45 PM

A Veteran’s Reflections

Born in the 1930s, raised in the 1940s, rebelled in the 1950s, and settled down in the 1960s. The decades that followed shaped the person I would become. My earliest memories take me back to elementary school, to a time...

Nov 11, 2026, 3:44 PM

The International Criminal Court’s humiliation at the United Nations

The International Criminal Court is in trouble. This is of course nothing new. The Court has been haemorrhaging legitimacy, credibility and support, having been caught up in allegations of selectivity, racism and professional incompetence virtually since it came into...

Nov 11, 2026, 3:18 PM

Yitzchak: The Strength to Dig Again

Yitzchak (Isaac) appeared quieter and less commanding than his father or son, yet tradition associates him with Gevurah - strength. He had a well of inner strength and resolve that we, as Jews and Israelis, need to draw from...

Nov 11, 2026, 2:56 PM

Coming joyfully to our land

BRING US IN JOY TO OUR HOMELAND שתעלינו בשמחה לארצנו Sometimes I find myself turning a line from the davening over and over again in my mind. It could be a line that I have said millions upon millions of times...

Nov 11, 2026, 2:36 PM

ACUTE ANGLES: Can I trust Rabbi AI?

Dear Rabbi. My niece tells me that sometimes when she has a Shaila (halachic question) or even a general query on some aspect of Judaism, not wishing to bother her rabbi, she consults artificial intelligence. Can A.I. really be...

Nov 11, 2026, 2:05 PM

Echoes of Antisemitism: Frankfurt Book Fair Part 2

A Report by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti PART 2 Safahat for Studies and Publishing, Damascus 7 - "The rise of Nazism; Germany between the two world wars: political, social, and economic", by Nermin Saad El-Din Ibrahim. Holocaust denial and the "Nazi-Zionist" conspiracy theory. In pure...

Steven J. Frank

Nov 11, 2026, 2:03 PM

El-Sayed’s Jews and Their Self-Delusions

US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed meets voters at Michigan Technological University. October 22, 2025. (Conlan Houston - https://www.flickr.com/photos/197161005@N08/54882601138/, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=193544841)

It should come as no surprise that as many as 57% of Michigan’s self-identified Jewish voters cast their ballot for Abdulrahman “Call Me Senator” El-Sayed despite his many demonizations of Jews. That’s even more than the third of New...

Nov 11, 2026, 2:01 PM

A Jewish Army: The Book and the Sword

One of the deepest divides in Israeli politics, sharpened by three years of war and the recent elections, concerns the continued non-service of most Haredi men while Israel fights wars of national survival. After simmering for decades, the dispute...

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