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Jaclyn S. Clark

Sep 8, 2026, 4:03 AM

Ed Sheeran Says He Has No Soapbox. His Opener Just Built One on His Stage.

You were the opener once, Ed. You know the job. Now do the headliner’s. My husband and I had our first dance to “Thinking Out Loud.” It is a song about being seventy and still wanting the same person, which...

Peter Himmelman

Sep 8, 2026, 1:58 AM

Mazal Tov Mack and Ed: When a Pop Concert Becomes a Hate-Fest Against the Jewish State

You’ve gotta hand it to the regime in Iran, to Qatar’s money, and to everyone else who’s spent the last few decades cultivating global hostility toward the world’s only Jewish state. It’s been, by any honest measure, a remarkably...

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 8, 2026, 1:55 AM

The Difference Between Entertainment and an Ambush

I grew up at a time when celebrities regularly gathered to raise money and awareness for causes larger than themselves. Farm Aid drew attention to the struggles of American farmers. Live Aid raised money for famine relief in Africa....

Bruce D. Forman

Sep 8, 2026, 1:49 AM

When They Come for the Jews, Everyone Should Worry

I wear two hats that sometimes seem very different. I am a psychologist. I am also a rabbi. As a psychologist, I spend a great deal of time thinking about how human beings perceive threats, construct explanations, divide the world into...

Sep 8, 2026, 1:35 AM

I Believe in Speaking Up. That’s Why I Couldn’t Watch Macklemore.

I had been back in America for less than three days when I walked into MetLife Stadium, still half living on Tel Aviv time. My twin sister and I grew up on Ed Sheeran's music and spontaneously decided to...

Gershon Blumstein

Sep 7, 2026, 6:58 PM

I Don’t Fear Rockets — I Fear Losing Judaism

A Diaspora Jew explains why his voice matters — and why Israel and the Diaspora can’t afford to turn away from each other. To my Israeli brothers and sisters: I know your reality can turn deadly before lunch. Your fear...

Sep 7, 2026, 2:02 PM

A Labor Day weekend with Holocaust Survivor and renowned speaker Sami Steigmann

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Sami Steigmann is an American-Israeli Holocaust survivor, motivational speaker, and educator who has dedicated his life to teaching the next generation about tolerance, combating hate, and overcoming adversity. But what means more than anything else in the world to...

Peter Himmelman

Sep 7, 2026, 4:31 AM

Happy Birthday, Judea Pearl: Professor, Friend, Father Figure (Tribute)

Professor Judea Pearl

It's not only people who've had a bad run with a father that spend their lives looking for a father figure. My own father was wonderful. Empowering, loving, in many ways heroic. And since he died in 1983, I’ve...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:51 PM

The Angel from Worcester

Worcester Cemetery: The Gravesite of Rav Avraham Kaufman

How prayers at Ancestors’ Graves Opened the Way to an Astonishing Encounter “Do you mean you met Elijah the Prophet?” I was giving a sermon at a shtiebel by my brother Baruch’s home in Brooklyn near Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. ...

Sep 6, 2026, 7:29 AM

Treasure Trove: Zionism from Jerusalem to Basel to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh?

From the Herzl and Zionisim Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

This postcard extends Zion’s Greetings for the New Year and references in Hebrew three cities that were important to Zionism in 1905 when the postcard was mailed. First is Jerusalem, which needs no explanation. Second is Basel, which was the...

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