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Neshama Carlebach

Aug 19, 2026, 12:17 PM

Less alone than I thought

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach with daughter Neshama Carlebach. (Courtesy)

Reckoning with my father’s complex legacy, I’ve discovered how many others are struggling to reconcile love for someone with the harm they caused

Mordechai de Haas

Aug 10, 2026, 6:27 PM

Welcome to Israel? How Border Control deported our relatives

This is what my sister-in-law saw after arrival. A couple of hours later she was deported.

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Last week my wife’s brother and sister from the Philippines were refused passage by the Border Control at Ben Gurion airport and were subsequently deported to Manila. Disregarding all documents proving their good intentions, the Border Control acted cruel...

Aug 8, 2026, 12:52 AM

One more gap-year essential: A conversation about abuse

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Along with the full suitcases, send your teens to Israel knowing how to spot and speak up about unhealthy boundaries, spiritual manipulation and abusive behavior

Jul 29, 2026, 7:34 AM

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn’t the finish line.

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn't the finish line. I used to think that once the words were out — once I'd finally said what happened, once other women stood up behind me — the hardest part was over. I...

Jul 27, 2026, 4:09 AM

One woman’s journey from fear to faith-rooted courage

For three years, I told myself that silence was love. Every time I chose not to speak, I convinced myself I was shielding the people I loved most from a pain I couldn't take back once it was out...

Mordechai I. Twersky

Jul 26, 2026, 5:52 PM

The Ethics Yeshiva University Teaches—and the Ethics It Must Face

'A life of Torah cannot be compartmentalized,' Yeshiva University declares in announcing its new ethics initiative. Forty-two years after covering a similar announcement for The New York Times, the author asks whether that principle also applies to the university...

Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Jul 9, 2026, 10:09 AM

Thank you to the Times of Israel Blog Posts! For giving me a voice! Tzedeck Z.

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B"H July 8th 2026 23rd of Tamuz, 5786 To the Times of Israel! Todah Rabah! Thank you so much for giving me a voice and platform this past year to be able to share my feelings, thoughts, essays and ideas. And my art with the...

Honey Kessler Amado

May 19, 2026, 12:03 AM

Context or Content in Responding to Kristof in NYTimes

Regarding Nicholas Kristof’s recent, May 11 New York Times column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” ( .) Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times column of May 11, 2026 addresses alleged abuse, including sexual abuse, against Palestinian men, women,...

May 15, 2026, 1:13 AM

Nick Kristof’s Never-Ending Obsession with Israel

Kristof’s NYT column reads as the work of an illusionist who blurs the line between allegation and established fact. “Obsession” is commonly defined as “an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind.” It is difficult to...

May 14, 2026, 6:17 AM

A silence still heard

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By now, one has either heard of the extensive sexual violence committed against women in Israel by Hamas, or one has chosen to live under the most apathetic rock. In the seemingly never ending saga of shedding light on...

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