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Steven C. Wernick

Jun 12, 2026, 8:03 PM

We Are Not Grasshoppers

Last Sunday, sixty thousand people filled Bathurst Street in Toronto — parents and students, Holocaust survivors in wheelchairs, clergy from communities not our own. The sound of Am Yisrael Chai rose over the city. I felt something I had...

Stephanie Z. Bonder

Jun 5, 2026, 6:36 AM

Let’s Not Forget About the Parade!

Hadassah Women Marching for Israel May 31, 2026

Last Sunday, May 31, 2026, I experienced a wonderful day of Jewish unity and support. Jews and allies from around the world gathered to march in the annual Israel Day on Fifth Parade in New York City. There was...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jun 1, 2026, 4:15 AM

What I Didn’t See at the Israel Day Parade

Thousands upon thousands gathered in New York on Sunday for the Israel Day Parade. For the first time in years, I was not one of them. Instead, I followed from afar, watching seas of people of every age. I...

Menachem Creditor

Jun 1, 2026, 4:13 AM

Today, 60,000 Voices for Zionism Marched Up Fifth Avenue

Some have suggested that the Israel Day Parade should be transformed into a broader celebration of Jewish diversity, one in which Israel is merely one thread among many. That sounds generous. It sounds inclusive. It is also a profound...

Gina Friedlander

May 31, 2026, 3:48 PM

When a Parade Becomes Something More

The Israel Parade will be here this Sunday and I'm ready to march. My only dilemma was deciding, not whether to march, but which group to go with. There were five that invited me to join them: Hadassah, Israel...

May 31, 2026, 8:39 AM

Mamdani can skip the Israel Day Parade. He can’t erase Jewish New York

The mayor's boycott is a passing gesture. Centuries of Jews' helping build NYC is an indelible part of the city's foundation

Stephen M. Flatow

May 29, 2026, 6:47 PM

When the Mayor Refuses to March With the Jews

New York’s mayor does not have to agree with every Israeli government policy to march in the Israel Day Parade. But when he refuses to stand with Jewish New Yorkers at one of their most visible public celebrations, he...

May 28, 2026, 10:41 AM

A Blessing for Our Courageous Muslim Allies

Together with these heroes in Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Yakov Nagen)

Day by day, my appreciation, respect, and love grow for my beloved Muslim friends who, in these dark times, choose to stand with the Jewish people against hatred and evil. Their consistent moral courage has unleashed upon them a...

May 2, 2026, 12:38 AM

Treasure Trove: A New York City Ticker Tape Parade for an Israeli Prime Minister

After its creation on May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was in desperate need of funds in order to build the new country. In February 1950, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion held a meeting at the King David...

Nina B. Mogilnik

Apr 8, 2026, 8:33 PM

The Agony of UnBelonging

We live in times that have so far eclipsed "interesting" as to make a mockery of that very concept. We in America are divided in ways that seem to harken back, somehow, to the moment of our greatest fracture,...

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