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Jan 19, 2025, 5:25 PM

Searching for Batya. In Gaza

At the time of this writing, if he is alive, Kfir Bibas just turned two years old. I can imagine him in a dark tunnel. Maybe his mom is with him. If she is alive, if she knows what day...

Aug 2, 2024, 6:22 PM

Now is the time to check in on your Israeli People

For months, I have wanted to go to Israel. Then I got my break when for the first time, taglit-birthright Israel extended an invitation to Jewish American journalists. In late June, I spent two days touring with journalists, birthright donors, students,...

Dec 5, 2023, 6:08 PM

Have Yourself a Massacre Free Christmas

It’s coming on Christmas; they’re cutting down trees. And as it gets colder and closer to December 25, I wish I could be filled with songs of joy and peace. But I just cannot. I’m still stuck on October 7th, the date...

Nov 1, 2023, 7:27 PM

An Open Letter to Bloomfield Hills Schools

Dear Bloomfield Hills Schools Officials, On October 25, for 40 minutes, a group of your students stood outside the main entrance of Bloomfield Hills High School and chanted "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free," and other...

Jan 21, 2022, 7:34 PM

The Shabbat after Colleyville

So, it's Friday again. I still have flour on my shirt and some dough under my fingernails. This week, my challah dough came out just right. Springy. Moist but not too moist and pliable enough to shape and stretch...

May 24, 2021, 8:11 AM

The not-surprising betrayal of (non-Jewish) progressives

A man wearing a kippah holds a sign reading 'Jews for Black Lives' at the weekly Black Lives Matter 'Jackie Lacey Must Go!' protest in front of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, California, September 9, 2020. (VALERIE MACON / AFP)

To those who come to the aid of the marginalized groups that are victims of hatred, where have you been for the Jews? When are Jews that marginalized group?

Feb 13, 2020, 11:10 PM

The Murky Nature and Outcome of SJP conferences

About a month ago, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor hosted a Palestine Youth Movement From the scant photos that were posted on the organization's Facebook timeline, it did not seem...

Sep 20, 2017, 6:57 PM

Kiddush Cups at Michael’s and Shabbos on a Cruise. Jewish parents, Do Jewish all year Long.

For my daughter's very first Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur, we dressed her up in a frilly, off white outfit complete with a pill-box hat. I think it also had a fuzzy white boa. We found a matching pair of white...

Jul 31, 2017, 7:28 AM

Pigs Fly. But I’ll still never See Roger Waters or play Pink Floyd.

I am a Gen Xer. That means the music of Pink Floyd is woven into the fabric of my childhood. Mystified and mesmerized, I lay awake in the darkness of my childhood bedroom listening to vinyl tracks of Floyd on 102.7...

Jul 20, 2017, 7:04 AM

To gain validation in Israel, first strengthen Jewish identity in America

Mixed prayer at the Kotel is not the most important Jewish issue, when her b'nei mizvah students can't identify Hamotzi!

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Stacy Gittleman is a freelance writer from Metro Detroit.

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