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Aug 27, 2026, 9:13 PM

You Can’t Take It with You (Ki Tavo 5786)

Two decades ago, after leaving the Wall Street Journal, one of my wife's first jobs in the Jewish world was working for a nascent project at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation to send Jewish children’s books to families every month. The...

Aug 27, 2026, 2:55 PM

Jewish Author Spotlight! Alyssa Rosenheck: ‘White. Blonde. Jew.’

Much more than a memoir, White. Blonde. Jew. doesn’t fit neatly into a category—because neither does its author Alyssa Rosenheck. The Nashville-based bestselling author of The New Southern Style and one of Architectural Digest’s Top 50 Interior and Architectural Photographers...

Jaime Kardontchik

Aug 26, 2026, 11:26 AM

Middle East conflicts in K-12 US public schools

I am not a fan of teaching the Arab-Israeli conflict in K-12 public schools: K-12 public schools already struggle to teach the basic subjects that children need to succeed in life (English, Math, the History of the United States...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 26, 2026, 5:01 AM

CONIB Launches Project to Decode and Confront Antisemitism

How do we recognize hatred when it changes its language? This is one of the central questions driving Decoding Antisemitism, a new institutional project by the Brazilian Israelite Confederation (CONIB), to be launched on September 2 at Unibes Cultural...

Aug 25, 2026, 6:11 PM

Koren’s New Siddur

The Hebrew word Siddur means “order.” It is the Jewish prayer book designed for ordinary weekdays and Shabbat. Its purpose is to give Jewish worship a regular order, language, and structure. It includes biblical passages, blessings, the Shema, the...

David S. Levine

Aug 25, 2026, 6:01 PM

Compare and Contrast Religions and Revolutions

Compare and Contrast Religions and Revolutions In Their Own Words, So You Can Decide. Whether we are religious, agnostic, or atheistic, what we pray for tells us a lot about who we are. By comparison, what they (Islam, Christianity, Judaism) pray...

Alaric DeArment

Aug 23, 2026, 10:40 AM

Guenter Lewy’s Damaging Legacy Cannot Be Ignored

The scholar Guenter Lewy died on March 24, at the age of 102. But despite the adage that one should not speak ill of the dead, the damage he did to the historiography of the Romani genocide cannot be...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

The Work of Living After October 7

ALS scares me. So does terrorism. Both force us to confront how suddenly life can change. I did not come to Tuesdays with Morrie as someone revisiting an old favorite. I came to it after October 7, carrying questions I...

Aug 20, 2026, 3:02 PM

Book review – Between Torah and Derech Eretz

A few months ago, a collector from Israel went around with the attached tzedakah card. The card described an impoverished family whose children were sleeping on the floor. It then explained that the father learns Torah all day, resulting...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 18, 2026, 3:04 AM

Jewish Society of Ceará Inaugurates Library Honoring David Rosenthal

Last Friday (14), the Jewish Society of Ceará (SIC) in Brazil, celebrated a special moment of memory, culture, and knowledge with the inauguration of its new library, named in honor of David Rosenthal — a tribute to a life...

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