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Daphne Lazar Price

I want to read the essays

When you were accused of drugging and gang-raping a woman and given the opportunity to mitigate against the alleged crime, what did you say?

Then-defense minister Benny Gantz speaks in Rishon LeZion, October 20, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90/ File)

Benny Gantz

Israel needs to take the erosion of US support seriously

I believe in a broad Zionist government that doesn’t rely on extremists – for the sake of Israel’s alliances and Jews everywhere

Students lead prayers outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence in Manhattan, September 18, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

What should we teach our children when Israel is challenged?

Instead of responding to Mamdani with a vigil, Jewish schools could help students grapple with the moral questions facing Israel and Zionism

Nadav Tamir

Hope cannot be built on the exclusion of Arab parties

If the change bloc wants to present a credible alternative government, it must stop treating Arab parties as untouchable coalition partners

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Ben Lazarus

Two little-known bookend prayers I really need now

While I’m staving off the anger, apathy, and impulsiveness of my incurable disease, I turn to God twice each day and ask for help that I believe would help anyone

Michelle Philippon

What this former evangelical found in a Reform synagogue

After growing up in megachurches, I took a job at a Reform synagogue and discovered a very different way of thinking about God, sin, belonging — and myself

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Here’s who I’m inviting to my sukkah

After so much debate over who is and isn’t Jewish enough to speak to, I want to see 10 dramatically different Jews at one table, hashing it out

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Sep 28, 2026, 9:37 PM

This Is Judaism: Isaiah for This Moment – Yom Kippur 5787

My father used to tell me a story. I think it was about his first congregation in Riverhead, Long Island, though I’m not completely sure anymore. Towards the beginning of his tenure there, he gave a sermon about the Vietnam...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:36 PM

An Interfaith Sukkah at Delaney Hall

Last Thursday night, in the tender space between Yom Kippur and Sukkot, in this season of repentance, members of synagogues throughout Essex County New Jersey held a vigil outside of Delaney Hall, a private prison with the capacity to...

Kenneth Brander

Sep 28, 2026, 9:35 PM

A Thousand Etrogim Cannot Replace One Aravah

It was Sunday, September 29, 1963, the eleventh of Tishrei, the day after Yom Kippur. A young Rav Yoel Bin Nun had just completed his first forty days of study at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav in Jerusalem. Before returning to Haifa...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:34 PM

What the Sukkah Lets In

In the 1950s, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, my father was a boy living in an apartment building called the Harding, built around a shared courtyard.* Every year, several of the Jewish families in the building shared one large communal sukkah there....

Hande Gençünal

Sep 28, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Man Who Climbed Out of the Cave

A man I know recommended Chekhov's "The Bet" to me the other day. He added his own summary. Everything in life was meaningless and empty, money meant nothing, and so we might as well go live in a cave,...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:27 PM

The Eighth Front: Israel’s UN Vow and India’s Multi-Aligned Tightrope

Conceptual illustration: An intricately carved Indian pillar stands anchored between the flags of the United Nations and Israel against a modern diplomatic skyline, symbolizing New Delhi's deeply rooted, multi-aligned balance amidst the growing friction of Jerusalem's 'eighth front' with international institutions. Image: AI-generated (Free for commercial use).

I watched Benjamin Netanyahu take the podium at the 81st United Nations General Assembly this week. Dozens of delegates walked out as he prepared to speak. The Israeli Prime Minister delivered a fiercely defiant address. He told the assembly...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:26 PM

Tools for Unity, Connection, and Introspection

When we take our arba minim on Sukkot, we are doing far more than bringing a few plants and a fruit together to fulfill a mitzvah. In Shaar HaKavanot (Inyan Sukkot, Drush 5), the Arizal takes us on a...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:26 PM

CNN, MS NOW and Bibi

“Moshe, do you know what happened when I tried to watch Bibi’s UN speech on CNN and MS NOW?” “Yup,” replied Mordechai. “They weren’t streaming it.” “That really pissed me off. I went ICBM ballistic. Livid, I cursed at my TV...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:25 PM

The UN Delegates Have No Clothes!

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Back in the day, the most efficient way to get Elvis fans to vacate the premises was to announce, “Elvis has left the building.” A surefire way, though not recommended, to empty a movie theater of moviegoers has always...

Janet Bond Brill

Sep 28, 2026, 9:24 PM

She Danced for the Gestapo. Then She Danced the Hora

One of my favorite photographs of my mother-in-law, Edna, sits on my desk. She is high above a dance floor, lifted on a chair during the hora. Her platinum curls are immaculate. Her mouth is wide open in a...

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