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Yardena Bagantz

Oct 13, 2026, 2:42 PM

The Negev’s future cannot be secured by police cruisers alone

A boy observes police as they patrol the streets of Tarabin al-Sana, a Bedouin town in southern Israel, on December 31, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

The Shin Bet warns of terrorist cells forming in the south — but tackling the threat means addressing the root causes that draw young Bedouins toward crime and extremism

Oct 13, 2026, 2:40 PM

Oct. 7 made it impossible to ignore what’s missing from Israel education

Students at Beth El Temple in West Hartford, Connecticut add to a communal art piece marking the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks, Oct. 7, 2024. (Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)

We need to help Diaspora Jews build a relationship with the country that can hold the weight of reality – even in difficult times

Oct 12, 2026, 1:57 PM

What an ‘eruv’ taught me about fighting antisemitism

Illustrative. A segment of an eruv, including the plastic white pipe on the pole, as a 'lechi,' in Airmont, New York, on February 6, 2018. (Wehwalt/ Gary Greenbaum/ Wikipedia

Getting to know your local leadership now means you can turn to them later (I know; I was the politician tapped to help a NJ Jewish community)

Oct 11, 2026, 2:04 PM

When did $650,000 become a reasonable Jewish nonprofit salary?

Illustration. (J Studios via Getty Images)

We need talented people leading our charities. But does paying a CEO twice as much deliver twice the impact, or simply leave less money for the mission?

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Oct 11, 2026, 1:33 PM

ChatGPT was on my medical team

(iStock)

I made my own decision, of course, but the machine's influence far exceeds its data, depending on how we relate to it: tool, team-member, or authority

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Oct 11, 2026, 10:44 AM

Jerusalem’s Old City: Never the same place twice

(LBD Creative)

There are real tensions here. Real grievances, fears, and injustices. Moments of kindness don’t erase them, but the sunshine and rainbows and kumbaya are real too

Oct 10, 2026, 5:07 PM

Hanukkah Barbie is here — and she actually got it right

Barbie Holiday Sweater Doll (Mattel)

After years of Jewish holiday merchandising that's off target or just plain wrong, there’s something powerful about finally feeling seen

Oct 10, 2026, 1:40 AM

A letter from a formerly suicidal IDF reservist

(fizkes via iStock)

I didn't think I could get PTSD at my desk job after October 7. My mother knew better – and what she did saved my life

Oct 10, 2026, 1:26 AM

She will dance again

"Bite," 2017, Eva Avidar, clay, iron. Photo: Dor Pazuelo

On Sunday I made the call and told Eva that her sculpture was broken. She understood before I’d finished my first sentence. I braced for the worst

Prakash Bishunke

Oct 8, 2026, 3:50 PM

Nepal may have forgotten October 7. I cannot

Mourners and security personnel walk behind a truck carrying the coffin of Bipin Joshi, the slain Nepali hostage, during a funeral ceremony at his hometown in Kanchanpur on October 21, 2025. (Prakash Chandra Timilsena / AFP)

We young Nepalis came to Israel to learn how to farm. Three years later, our own country doesn't care about the losses we suffered there

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