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Mar 25, 2026, 2:43 PM

There’s Another Script for This Jewish Moment

Elie Wiesel's 1979 The Trial of God keeps playing in the back of my mind as I sit in Israel, listening to my American Jewish colleagues in week four of the war. In the play, a small group of...

Dec 17, 2025, 9:51 PM

When the Jewish People Rubik’s Cube Converged on Australian Jewry

On the first night of Hanukkah, as the Jewish community gathered on Sydney's Bondi Beach to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness, two gunmen opened fire, killing 15 people, and leaving dozens injured—in the deadliest attack against Jews...

Jul 31, 2025, 7:16 AM

The 9th of Av within October 7th: Opening up our Memory to find our Narrative

It won't be hard for an already sad Jewish people to get into the mood this Tisha B'Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. Jews will bring all their baggage from the October Seventh period with them to...

Jan 25, 2024, 11:25 PM

Remembering the Holocaust to find resilience in October 7 and its aftermath

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we can find strength in survivors’ testimonies and harness it as an inherited gift to navigate this period. Remembering the Holocaust takes on new meaning following October 7, a day which brought every living Jew...

May 24, 2023, 10:40 PM

Building global Jewry’s growth mindset requires dialogue

The generation that received the 10 commandments could not be the one to carry them into the promised land. As Maimonides in Guide for the Perplexed writes, “And just as the Deity used a gracious ruse in causing them to...

Feb 25, 2023, 9:50 PM

An open letter from two American Israelis to our American Jewish friends

By: Tracy Frydberg and Barak Sella Unbeknownst to the majority of Israelis protesting in the streets or roaming the Knesset halls, Israel’s internal democratic struggle vibrates across the Jewish world. The Jewish state is confronting the major tensions of its existence;...

Aug 2, 2022, 1:13 AM

Applying the Chabad-approved ‘Ukraine Model’ to other Jewish crises

The year was 1987 and Israel’s Law of Return was again up for debate in the Knesset. Ultra-Orthodox legislators were fiercely pushing for an amendment requiring all state-accepted conversions to be according to stringent interpretations of halakha, Jewish religious...

May 25, 2020, 2:12 PM

American Jewry, don’t social distance, think strategically

American Jews looking to “social distance” themselves from Israel, pushed over the edge by Israel’s potential annexation after years of the Israeli government's slow beatdown, should pay attention to the current mood shift in Israel and strategically use this...

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Frydberg is the director of the Tisch Center for Jewish Dialogue at the ANU Museum. She is a former adviser to two ministers of diaspora affairs.