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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

'Religiously we may be monotheistic, but politically we’re pagan.'

Rapha Manajem

A seat at the tabernacle

Two Jews, three opinions, 11 political parties, and a country that can’t form a government: How Israel can break its election cycle

Jay Abramson

88 years after Kristallnacht, why are Jews still targeted?

When Philadelphians cyclists go after Jewish-owned businesses, they normalize anti-Jewish hostility, discarding the essential lessons of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’

Josh Fine

What Boy George taught me about being Jewish

The man in sequins has refused to let the dominant culture push him to trade truth for acceptance over more than 40 years. No wonder he ‘stands with the Jews’!

US Vice President JD Vance (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); US Senator Elect Abdul El-Sayed (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

In America’s culture war, Israel was the loser

History teaches what happens when Jews become pawns in other people’s battles. This week’s midterm elections offered a chilling reminder

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Pnina Omer

A woman’s own free will: On the sanctity of the marriage covenant

A healthy marriage means choosing each other anew every day – where turning consent into a mechanism for subjugation warps its very essence (Chayei Sarah)

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Jacqueline Snidman-Stren

Nov 9, 2026, 6:24 PM

The War After the War

For many Israeli soldiers, returning home does not necessarily mean leaving the war behind. Combat exposure, repeated reserve duty, the deaths of fellow soldiers and prolonged separation from civilian life can continue to affect soldiers long after deployment ends. Nearly...

Daniel R. Weiss

Nov 9, 2026, 6:22 PM

Who Will Notice What the Machine Can’t?

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Who will notice what the machine can’t? A child can now ask a machine any question at two in the morning and get an answer that is patient, instant, and very often right. I know this because no chatbot has...

Sherwin Pomerantz

Nov 9, 2026, 6:21 PM

My Fear for the Future of American Jews

Two things happened in the last week that made me feel very good about America and its demonstrated action in support of its raison d’etré. The first was the mid term elections on November 3rd where the US voting public...

Nov 9, 2026, 6:18 PM

Philadelphia Passes Its First Pro-Pal Protest Test

On a Sunday afternoon when hundreds of thousands showed up in Amsterdam to protest Israel, a smaller but perhaps no less dramatic protest took place in my city, Philadelphia. Publicized as a “Boycott Bike Ride”, organizers planned to ride...

Kenneth Brander

Nov 9, 2026, 6:15 PM

Haftarat Parshat Toldot: Holding Fast to Truth in an Age of Deception

The stories of Yaakov and Esav in this week's parsha explore the tension between appearance and substance, deception and authenticity. The same tension continues in the haftarah, where the prophet Malachi challenges the Jewish people to consider what it...

Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Nov 9, 2026, 6:13 PM

Skip the Movie, Read the Book

I knew something was off when the narrator appeared on camera in the recent documentary, "Herzl: The Man Behind Israel" (2025). He was wearing a wrinkled, saggy, tee-shirt under a nubby gray jacket. His shirt hung outside his pants. His...

Chaim Y. Botwinick

Nov 9, 2026, 6:11 PM

Is it Time for American Jews to ‘Circle the Wagons’?

"Circling the wagons" is an American frontier image, but the Jewish version is over 3,000 years old. On the prairie, when settlers saw dust on the horizon, they organized into a circle. Families and children in the middle and rifles...

Menachem Creditor

Nov 9, 2026, 5:33 PM

Holding One Another Up

In a famous scene from the Book of Exodus, when the Israelites are attacked in the wilderness, Moses stands on a hill with his hands raised. As long as his hands remain up, the Israelites prevail. But Moses grows...

Andreas Albrecht

Nov 9, 2026, 5:32 PM

‘Never Again’ — Why Only on Memorial Days?

Eighty-eight years after the November pogroms, Germany commemorates the victims of Nazi violence. Politicians lay wreaths, give speeches and declare their solidarity with Jewish life. Yet the threats facing our Jewish fellow citizens have intensified. How credible is remembrance...

Nov 9, 2026, 5:29 PM

Digging Wells in Hard Ground

Parashat Toldot centers on an inheritance that is remarkably unglamorous. While Abraham was the pioneering founder who blazed the trail and Jacob would become the transformative fighter who wrestled with angels, Isaac spends much of his life doing something...

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