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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

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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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Talyah Ginsberg

The year is new. Israel is already double-booked.

The High Holidays promise renewal, but family, romance, travel plans and life in Israel have apparently declined to clear their calendars

Sukkah roofs. (Wikimedia Commons)

Adam S. Ferziger

Life is a fragile booth: The ‘falling sukkah’ redemption

Even when the walls shake, in times of personal and national crisis, internal division, and real exposure, we seek comfort in the sukkah’s ‘shade of faith’

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