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Jonah Platt

Jewish nonprofit leaders should be paid like corporate CEOs

High NGO salaries have sparked outrage. But why should serving the Jewish community mean accepting less?

An election campaign billboard for the Likud party is displayed along a roadside in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections, October 16, 2026. (Sharon Leibel/Flash90)

Aron Heller

Vote right, if you wish. Just don’t vote for Bibi

Make no mistake, this election is not about right versus left. It’s about right versus wrong

Ruby and Hagit Chen (center), the parents of slain IDF soldier Itay Chen, attend an event at the State Department honoring the US citizens killed on October 7, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (right), October 14 2026. (Courtesy)

Ruby Chen

What Washington expects from Israel’s next government

While in the US capital to honor my son’s memory, I heard a clear message: Israel must change course, rebuild regional trust, and restore American public support

Olives aplenty. (All photos courtesy of the author)

Susannah Schild

The worst deal I make every year for the oldest harvest in the land

After last year’s poor olive yield, we were somehow certain this year would be plentiful. And so we hunted (and hunted) for the best trees for our oil

Michael Herman speaks at a campus rally. (Courtesy of Aaron Herman)

Aaron Herman

A person should own the algorithm: Watching ‘The Social Reckoning’ with my son

My 8th grader joined social media to fight antisemitism. When we saw the new film about Facebook, I discovered he understands something Mark Zuckerberg has forgotten

What are those ugly fruits? (courtesy)

Mark P Cohen

18 not-so-serious questions about the meaning of life in Israel

After 15 months here, I still need to learn many things, like whether the parakeets on my street are indigenous to Israel or colonizers – and does anyone like amba?

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

My son’s backpack was shot and that wasn’t even the craziest part of the story

What are the odds that a missing schoolbag, a police operation, and an entirely unnecessary decorative giraffe would land me in that exact checkout line?

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Oct 21, 2026, 2:00 AM

The Power of One-Aleph: Perspective, Despair, and the Observer

This week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha, carries Abraham into the unknown and offers a quiet lesson about how we see the world and how that seeing shapes it. To get there, I want to start with a riddle, move...

Oct 21, 2026, 1:56 AM

Hurt People Hurt People

Candidate for senator of Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, responding to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre of Israeli civilians, invoked the familiar phrase, “Hurt people hurt people.” Common in psychology and self-help discussions, the expression suggests that people who have experienced...

Oct 21, 2026, 1:54 AM

Walking Into the Unfinished Text

The foundational journey of the Jewish people does not begin in childhood, nor does it begin in the energetic flush of youth. It begins when an established, seventy-five-year-old man hears a sudden, destabilizing command that tears him out of...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 21, 2026, 1:53 AM

The Centre Called It a Manifestation

In June 2024, Lithuania's Genocide and Resistance Research Centre reprinted 1941 Lithuanian Activist Front texts telling Jews to leave Lithuania and directing activists, at the decisive moment, “jų turtą perimkite į savo rankas” — take their property into your...

Oct 21, 2026, 1:52 AM

Zionism is Judaism

Today, "Zionism" simply means believing that Israel has a right to exist as the Jewish homeland. Yet in modern political discourse, critics routinely turn the word into an insult—sometimes even comparing it to Nazism. When the rhetoric gets that...

Mustapha Ezzarghani

Oct 21, 2026, 1:50 AM

Walking an Israeli friend to Synagogue in Morocco

I wanted to show an Israeli friend the Morocco I have spent years defending, a country where Jewish history is not foreign history but part of our own. Instead, a walk to a synagogue ended with an unidentified man...

Eliezer Avraham

Oct 21, 2026, 1:47 AM

India’s Digital Revolution: How Jio Connected a Nation

As billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio prepares for India’s largest IPO by rupee value, its rise illuminates a broader transformation: how digital connectivity, public infrastructure and global investment are propelling India toward the forefront of global technology and economic power. A...

Clifford Rieders

Oct 21, 2026, 1:44 AM

The Future of Socialism

Is the future of socialism playing out in the streets of French cities and towns? Store owners, some of them Jewish, were seen outside their broken store windows literally begging rioters and looters to leave their hard earned merchandise...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 21, 2026, 1:08 AM

Parashat Lech Lecha: The “Why” You Are Your Greatest Spiritual Master.

A magical characteristic of life is that even when you think your faith couldn’t possibly be stronger and is arguably the strongest in the world, it can still increase! Everyone knows about the riots in Paris that started last Saturday...

Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

Oct 21, 2026, 12:46 AM

My First Israeli Election: Who’s next?

As Benjamin Netanyahu approaches his 77th birthday, I find myself questioning not only who should lead Israel today, but who is being prepared to lead us tomorrow. In Canada, I could follow Israel's security alerts from thousands of miles away....

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