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Vicky Ludmer

May 26, 2026, 5:08 AM

A few days ago, we celebrated the giving of the Torah, our most sacred text, at Mount Sinai. Paradoxically, this legal, ethical, and spiritual covenant is what makes us free, since without law there is no freedom. Law provides a...

Apr 5, 2026, 10:01 AM

Ma Nishtana?

Ma Nishtana? Why is this night different from all other nights? Once again, the calendar brings us back to the beginning. We are in the month of Nisan, we are starting a new year and we are ready to sit around...

Mar 7, 2026, 12:56 PM

Poetic Justice

A couple of thousand years ago, in ancient Persia—today’s Iran—a sinister, greedy, and unscrupulous man sought to exterminate the Jewish people simply because he could not bend them to his will. Such was the magnitude of his ego and his...

Dec 15, 2025, 8:31 AM

Shehecheyanu

As I write these lines tonight, Jews around the world light the first candle of Hanukkah, the feast of lights and miracles. A commemoration that is usually celebrated with joy. Just like it should have been Simcha Torah on that...

Oct 14, 2025, 9:50 AM

Ha Baita.

Ha Baita. Coming Back home. Mixed emotions.... Two years of anguish, sadness, fear, fury, hope. Two years far away and very close at the same time. It's the middle of the night in Buenos Aires. I'm glued to the computer waiting for the return...

Aug 31, 2025, 7:40 PM

Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof

Last Friday, August 29th, Lawyer's Day was commemorated in Argentina. We remember this date in honor of Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentine lawyer, politician, economist, diplomat and writer, one of the highest exponents of the ideas of freedom and justice of...

Feb 22, 2025, 1:16 AM

With a Broken Heart

Days of pain, anguish, anger, even fury is what good people around the world are experiencing. Jews and non-Jews. This is a matter of humanity, even if most of the world seems to have forgotten. The return in coffins of a...

Jan 21, 2025, 12:34 AM

They are back home

"So there is hope for your future, says the Lord; and the children shall return to their own land." Jeremiah 31:16 The mixture of sensations is inevitable: the bittersweet taste in the soul simultaneous with the complete happiness of Doron, Romy...

Oct 7, 2024, 8:45 PM

We will dance again

A year ago, the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust took place. And for a year the comparison between both events has been inevitable. Similar in so many ways, different in so many others. Similar, in that...

May 24, 2024, 8:09 PM

Gaslighting

I started writing this article several weeks ago, and every time I think I'm going to finish it, something new happens that leaves me in complete shock for a few days.... And when I'm about to start over, something...

About Me

Vicky Ludmer is a lawyer, life coach, NLP practitioner and Jewish educator. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of Fundacion Pardes, a local masorti congregation and external advisor to Hanoar HaTzioni.