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Steve Glickstein

Aug 26, 2026, 4:54 AM

What If Silence Isn’t Indifference?

What if we’ve been getting silence wrong? When a friend says nothing about antisemitism, Israel, or the war, it’s easy to assume they don’t care. Silence feels like absence. It feels like distance. It feels like indifference. But what...

Karen Lieberman

Aug 25, 2026, 6:30 AM

GENOCIDE: The Historic Inversion of Our Time OR…The Never-Ending Lie

In mid-2023, the population of the Gaza Strip was approximately two million. It is currently two million. The IDF – supposedly committing genocide – is not very proficient – unlike the Nazis, who butchered the Jewish people during WWII....

Aug 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

Israel’s “PR Problem” Is Not a PR Problem

When the answer to failed messaging is more messaging. (AI Generated Image)

“Israel is losing the PR war” has become a familiar complaint, one often accompanied by claims that Israel’s public relations are terrible, that Jews are failing to tell our story effectively, or that we simply need better messaging. We...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 17, 2026, 11:47 AM

The Democratic Party’s Jewish Reckoning Has Arrived

Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory has forced Jewish Democrats to confront a question their party can no longer evade: How much are Jewish voters expected to tolerate in the name of defeating Donald Trump? There comes a point when political loyalty...

Stephen A. Cooper

Aug 16, 2026, 6:57 AM

How the death penalty creates more victims

When Anthony Darrell Hines was executed by lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution August 13, Hines’s son was there, bearing witness to his father’s murder by Tennessee. As reported on the website of ABC-affiliated television station WKRN in...

Aug 14, 2026, 5:31 PM

Social Action Is Not an Optional Addition to the Gospel

A Theology of Social Action and Justice — Part III Christian theology has often treated social action as something added to faith after the “real” work of doctrine, conversion, worship, and personal morality has been completed. Poverty, racism, labor, housing,...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 14, 2026, 12:36 AM

Beyond Silence: Women Who Raised Voices for Israel Applauded at Hebraica SP

A panel moderated by journalist Benjamin Back brought together Ana Beatriz Prudente Alckmin, Cris Monteiro, Fernanda Scarambone, Juliana Leite (Julie Milk), and Ale Chianelli to discuss antisemitism, the war of narratives, and the attacks faced by those who chose...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Steve Glickstein

Aug 12, 2026, 4:54 AM

Disarm Antisemitism in 20 Seconds

Disarming prejudice: One cup of coffee at a time.

The next time you hear antisemitism over coffee, resist the urge to give a history lecture. Most of us instinctively reach for facts—citing dates, stats, or global headlines. But the moment you start lecturing, the other person’s eyes glaze over....

Stephen A. Cooper

Aug 11, 2026, 11:37 PM

Life without parole is the cure for America’s death penalty disease

Three executions are scheduled in America on August 13. The states set to kill men that day are Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Alabama. The terrible crimes the men committed were reprehensible, and this writing is not meant to diminish, minimize,...

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