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Rivy Poupko Kletenik

Oct 8, 2026, 4:06 AM

Et Tu, Reggio Emilia?

Dread and despair. There is no other way to wake up on October 7. But this, the third year, my feelings are compounded. This year’s calendar landed my Mother’s Yahrzeit, of 21 Tishrei, on this intense painful secular date. That...

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 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?

Ruthie Hollander

Oct 7, 2026, 7:01 PM

5 reasons to be upset about Mamdani’s October 7 tweet

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a coexistence vigil marking the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, October 7, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

If only New York's mayor had stopped his message after the first 40 words of sympathy for Israeli victims. But no

Donniel Hartman

Oct 5, 2026, 3:41 PM

Israel must defend itself — without defending the indefensible

Palestinian children sit amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 10, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Rejecting false accusations against Israel must not mean denying its real moral failures. To reclaim our voice, we need to learn to do both

Oct 7, 2026, 6:47 PM

The airstrikes we canceled: What NAZA leaves out

A screenshot from the trailer for the film 'NAZA' published on September 25, 2026. (Screenshot: Youtube, The Guardian)

The film has it backwards: I worked with the IDF's casualty estimate system. It's a brake on civilian deaths, not a license to kill

Barry Finestone

Oct 6, 2026, 10:21 AM

What I want my non-Jewish friends to see this October 7

US pro-Palestinian activists during a protest in support of the terror attack against Israel, in New York City, October 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protest Israel’s policies all you like. But when people mark a massacre of Jews by celebrating its perpetrators, something else is happening

Oct 8, 2026, 12:25 PM

I’m an ultra-Orthodox woman whose Jewish experience changed on October 7

People rally at the National Mall during an anti-Israel demonstration in Washington, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

At first, I hid my identity, but when I encountered a group spouting anti-Zionist propaganda, I spoke up - and discovered I needed a police escort to my car

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 7, 2026, 3:53 PM

We are still waiting for someone to say: We failed you

Shlomi and Deborah (Shahar) Matias (Courtesy)

My sister and brother-in-law were murdered on October 7. Their children survived. No government representative has ever come to look us in the eye and take responsibility

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