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Jun 17, 2026, 5:48 AM

Whose Life Is It Anyway? Why We Are Still Fighting

Image courtesy of Hadassah.

As I follow what is happening to women today, I recall one passionate high-school history lesson describing how hard women were forced to fight for the right to vote. It took decades of conflict before the 19th Amendment, prohibiting...

Allen S. Maller

May 3, 2026, 1:58 PM

Islamic and Jewish Views on Abortion: When Does a Soul Enter a Fetus

Two years after the Supreme Court tossed out a challenge to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone, the justices must again decide whether access should be restricted. In emergency appeals filed May 2, two drug makers asked the court to immediately...

Monique Dietvorst

Apr 3, 2026, 5:48 PM

Matt Walsh, Puritanical Thinking, and the Extremes It Creates

The Pendulum Swing: How Puritanical Thinking Fuels the Extremes It Claims to Oppose In today’s culture wars, figures like Matt Walsh present themselves as defenders of tradition, morality, and order. But there’s a deeper pattern at play—one that rarely gets...

Monique Dietvorst

Mar 9, 2026, 4:54 AM

Dutch Lessons: Low Abortion Rates and Reproductive Health Insights

Lessons from the Netherlands: Reflections on Low Abortion Rates and Reproductive Education Growing up in a Dutch immigrant household, I noticed early on that something about my parents’ approach to life and family planning was very different from what I...

Jan 17, 2026, 10:06 PM

Snow Over the Ghetto, Budapest 1945

Common graves in the Dohány Street Synagogue courtyard
(Photo courtesy of the author)

Until the day she died, whenever it snowed, she remembered that winter in Budapest in 1945, when the snow lay thick across the rooftops like eiderdown, deceptively soft. As it fell, she thought of Frau Holle and the old...

Jan 7, 2026, 6:23 AM

Inches to Metric: I Am Woman

Trigger warning! This column was not easy to write and will/may be difficult to read. Where to begin? October 7th sent shock waves throughout Israel and the world, especially World Jewry. Many suffered immeasurable pain. But a human failing/truth; its easier to...

Dec 24, 2025, 6:47 AM

‘Context’ Is the New Excuse

Jews around the world have to protest just for the right to live without fear (Dylan4photography, Unsplash).

In a culture obsessed with policing “harm,” ordinary speech is treated as bigotry — while explicit threats against Jews are endlessly explained away. In today’s public discourse, the problem is not simply disagreement — it is asymmetry. Certain statements, even...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 5, 2025, 7:49 AM

Pro-Life “Hypocrisy” in Israel and the U.S.

My headline here might seem to be a head-scratcher. First, why “hypocrisy” in quotation marks? Second, America has a strong “pro-life” movement – but Israel? In fact, while it’s not specifically called that, Israel’s underlying ethos – religious and...

Aug 30, 2025, 12:36 AM

From Adwa to Jerusalem: Ethiopian Jews’ Journey of Pride in Israel

Designed and created by Shmuel Legesse, July 122, 2024.

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse and Jonathan Takele The story of Ethiopian Jews is one of survival, faith, and a longing for Zion that spanned centuries. Known as Beta Israel, our community carried Jewish tradition across generations in the mountains of...

Aug 5, 2025, 9:04 PM

EFRAT’s Quiet Revolution: A Jewish Response to a Noisy Debate

I want to take this opportunity to share a bit more about the heart of EFRAT, what motivates us, and why we speak the way we do. At its core, EFRAT is guided by a profoundly Jewish understanding of life:...

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