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Oct 9, 2026, 8:43 AM

Gaza to Paris: How a Generation Learns to Protest

What does a Palestinian flag have to do with a French school that doesn't have enough teachers? Across France, teenagers have been blocking school entrances and taking to the streets, angry about overcrowded classrooms, missing teachers and deteriorating facilities. What...

Stephen A. Cooper

Oct 9, 2026, 5:49 AM

Give death penalty lawyers phone access already, dammit!

One can only hope Christa Pike’s horrifically botched execution attempt in Tennessee will accelerate the death penalty’s demise in the United States. Gallons of ink have been spilled—with much more to come—by legal experts and pundits from all corners of...

Oct 6, 2026, 10:53 AM

We Are a People of Action

Three years after October 7, there are still no words big enough to hold the weight of what was lost. We remember the lives taken that morning. The parents who lost children. The children who lost parents. The families whose...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

Oct 6, 2026, 9:39 AM

Should Family Physicians Encourage Patients to Vote?

Voting can empower and perhaps improve health.

What Does Voting Have to Do with Health? What does voting have to do with health? More than you might think. A study of 170 countries found that those with stronger democratic institutions tended to have healthier populations, particularly when those...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 6, 2026, 3:22 AM

We Will Dance on Simchat Torah. But October 7 Will Dance With Us.

Three years after the Hamas massacre, the Jewish calendar asks something almost impossible of us: to carry unbearable memory into one of our most joyful days and still choose life. There are dates that mark history. And then there are...

Steve Glickstein

Oct 1, 2026, 5:45 PM

Security Guards Can’t Change Hearts

Security Guards Can't Change Hearts
Created by Steve Glickstein with AI

A guard can stop someone at the door. A guard can't change what they believe about Jews. We need guards more than ever. But if guards are all we have, we're only surviving. Every time I enter or leave a...

Oct 1, 2026, 9:56 AM

Strategic Antisemitism™

* Sometimes hatred isn’t an emotion. It’s a business model. Sometimes prejudice isn’t a principle. It’s a strategy. Antisemitism has always been unusually adaptable to the ambitions of the people exploiting it. I call this Strategic Antisemitism™. Scholars might call it instrumental antisemitism....

Sep 30, 2026, 11:27 PM

What Gloria Steinem can teach us about the Cornell 7

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If we teach boys from a young age to be strong without controlling others and to refuse to stand idly by if their peers get violent, we can prevent sexual violence

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 28, 2026, 4:03 AM

⁦⁧איפה משה היום?⁩ | ⁧أين موسى عليه السلام اليوم؟⁩ | Where Is Moses Today?⁩

Pharaoh’s Guide to Modern Political Leadership When you cannot answer the accusation, commission a biography of the accuser. A satire on the "modern" press "office". The first rule of machiavellian political leadership is straightforward: when someone asks what you have done,...

Deborah Gastfreund Schuss

Sep 23, 2026, 5:43 AM

Jewish students’ future at US colleges hangs on Supreme Court

The recent annual reading in Newport, R.I., of George Washington’s letter to that community’s Hebrew Congregation in 1790 is a timely reminder of the first U.S. president’s commitment to Jewish safety. Washington’s eloquent choice of words affirmed that “It is now...

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