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Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Meta agreed to protect America’s children. Who will protect Israel’s?

After nearly three years of war on their screens, Israeli children deserve the same safeguards Meta has agreed to provide American teens

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi youth near Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.

A Rosh Hashanah card made by 8-year-old Zahava Kanarek in the Westerbork transit camp, 1943 (Courtesy of the author)

Hephzibah Rudofsky

‘I hope that next year we will be in better circumstances’

The Rosh Hashanah card my mother made in a Nazi transit camp is a simple object filled with hope – and unanswered questions

Jaclyn S. Clark

George Clooney defended a right nobody threatened

Calling speech antisemitic isn’t censorship. As a federal judge just made clear, it’s an opinion — and the answer to an opinion is more speech

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Mijal Bitton

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Daphne Lazar Price

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

In this handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas votes during the elections for the new central committee of the Fatah movement during their Eighth General Conference in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on May 16, 2026. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too

Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

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Sep 8, 2026, 1:18 PM

She came to Israel despite the fear. Then the sirens came.

Annie De Bruyn (right) and Tobias Siegal (left) in Tel Aviv Jaffa, June 2026. (Courtesy)

The first thing Annie De Bruyn noticed about Israel was not the tension. It was the way people kept returning to life. When my girlfriend left Los Angeles and arrived in Israel in late April with no return ticket, many...

Vincent James Hooper

Sep 8, 2026, 1:17 PM

The Folded Tree

They called it the Habsburg jaw. A mandible so deformed by generations of intermarriage that Charles II of Spain, the last of his line, could barely chew his food. Three marriages between uncle and niece figured among his parents,...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:53 AM

Jews vs. Jews: From Rome to the Jewish State

I recently heard historian Barry Strauss discuss his new book, Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, on the TRIGGERnometry podcast. Intrigued, I bought the book and just finished reading it. Published in 2025,...

Mansoor H. Laghari

Sep 8, 2026, 8:52 AM

Israel is losing information war, Badly.

Israel Is Winning Battles and Losing the Information War A friend of Israel should be willing to say what Israel’s enemies already understand: military superiority is not enough if you surrender the battlefield of perception. By Mansoor Hussain Laghari I write this...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:51 AM

Make it Attainable

I have been having an increasingly difficult time observing the impact of the high cost of Jewish Education, especially in the Diaspora. There are increasing costs of being Jewish; housing, kosher food, and education. How is this sustainable, how is this...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:49 AM

We carry the peace

I recently heard someone say: “ We do not need to search for peace, we carry the peace”. This made me reflect, a lot. Especially today in our current Global climate which is so full of aggression, violence, hatred, corruption,...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:49 AM

From Indoctrination To Peace

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

At this moment, it appears that the wars with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon have entered a quieter phase. For how long, nobody knows. In the Middle East, silence does not necessarily mean peace, and a ceasefire...

Eugene J. Levin

Sep 8, 2026, 6:37 AM

Lithuania Published 84 Names. Its Foreign Ministry Still Says “Collaborators.”

Sakowicz recorded 80 “Shaulists” shooting and 100 guarding the fence at Ponary on 2 September 1941. Lithuania’s own institutions can identify the Special Squad. One of them still retreats to a generic word. On 5 August 2025, Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry...

Sep 8, 2026, 6:36 AM

We are entering a difficult time of year. The theme that we will be hearing over and over again, is the need to do Teshuva, return to G-d. It does seem kind of redundant because we hear this year after...

Sep 8, 2026, 6:35 AM

What the New Year Asks of Our Relationships

As Labor Day comes to a close, a new academic year is in the air. The crisp fall weather and approaching Jewish holidays bring with them a familiar sense of renewal. This season invites us to begin again by...

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