Seth Eisenberg, at The Blogs

Jul 10, 2026, 7:20 PM

Illustrative AI image created by the author. When fear takes over, repair may begin with one small reach across the distance.

Since October 7, Jewish and interfaith couples are fighting about schools, safety, and whether to stay — arguments that are really conversations with the past. Naming that is the first step. Knowing what to do next is the second. It...

Jul 9, 2026, 10:19 PM

How Israel Can Make Its Case to a Skeptical America

Illustrative AI image created by the author.

The old case, the new audience Earlier this week, I wrote that Benjamin Netanyahu had delivered, twice in one day and with undiminished skill, an argument written for an America that no longer exists. That earlier America remembered Israel as...

Jul 8, 2026, 8:45 PM

Watching Netanyahu Make the Case — to an America That No Longer Exists

Watching the prime minister make the case — to the wrong audience. (ChatGPT)

New polling shows the firewall Israel built on the American right is quietly cracking On Tuesday I watched Benjamin Netanyahu twice in one day — fielding Dana Bash’s questions on CNN, then Greta Van Susteren’s on Newsmax — and I...

Jul 5, 2026, 6:42 AM

The Refusenik Refuses Again

The author, right, with Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein in November 2017. (Courtesy)

Yuli Edelstein has spent much of his life saying no to powerful institutions. He said no to a Soviet system that tried to decide how much Jewish memory a person was allowed to carry. Now, decades later, he is...

Jul 3, 2026, 1:31 AM

Elie Wiesel, October 7, and the Burden of Memory

For more than half a century, I have asked the same questions over which Elie Wiesel struggled and shared his wound. Not as a survivor. I carry no personal memory of the camps, no father lost to a death march,...

Jul 1, 2026, 4:54 AM

The Quiet Search for Love Across the Muslim World

My mother spent her life believing that love could be learned. Not performed. Not endured. Not organized around roles assigned at birth and enforced by silence. Learned — practiced, repaired, deepened — by any human being willing to do the work. In...

Jun 30, 2026, 10:18 AM

If Your Child Can’t Tell You the Hardest Truth, Nothing Else Matters

Making our homes places where our children’s hardest truths are welcomed, not feared. A few months ago, a friend told me about her daughter. Sixteen years old, good student, close with her parents — or so they thought. It was...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:06 AM

American Jewish Parents, Don’t Raise Frightened Jews

American Jewish parents are asking how to prepare their children for a world where antisemitism is once again visible. The recent Democratic primary in New York’s 10th Congressional District offered two different political answers. I think it exposed a much deeper...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:06 PM

Diplomats Can Sign a Ceasefire. Relationships Keep the Peace.

A ceasefire can be negotiated in conference rooms. Peace cannot. Diplomats may end the exchange of weapons, but only ordinary people can end the cycle of fear, resentment, and dehumanization that makes violence return. Lasting peace is sustained not by...

Jun 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

What Cannot Be Mourned Cannot Be Forgiven

How grief becomes grievance—and what communities can do about it. The title of this essay is not a metaphor. It is a description of something that happens — in families, in communities, in nations — when loss has no legitimate...

About Me

Seth Eisenberg is President and CEO of PAIRS Foundation and has spent his career at the intersection of Jewish life and relationship education. He has worked extensively throughout the Jewish community and with individuals, couples, and families to strengthen the emotional skills that sustain connection across difference and adversity. He writes about emotional literacy, trauma, resilience, parenting, and what it means to raise the next generation grounded in worth rather than wound.

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