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Silas Anastacio

Jun 28, 2026, 5:56 AM

Rikuday Festival’s 10th Edition Unites 2,000 Through Dance and Art

The 10th edition of Rikuday – Dance and Art Festival of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP) – gathered more than two thousand people last Sunday at the Memorial da América Latina, in a celebration marked by intergenerational encounters, and...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Jun 25, 2026, 5:38 AM

The Roof Where I Watched the War

An illustration inspired by childhood memories of watching the Salvadoran Civil War from the rooftop of a family home in San Jorge, El Salvador.

There are memories that return first as light. Not faces. Not names. Not even fear. Only flashes against the darkness. When I was a child during the Salvadoran civil war, I used to climb onto the roof of our house...

Sonia Gomes de Mesquita

Jun 22, 2026, 8:39 PM

A Good Children’s Book Is Far More Than a Bedtime Story

Hebrew Book Month is an opportunity to celebrate the written word, but also to remember where it all begins: with the first book a child encounters, the character that sparks curiosity, the illustration that expands their world, and the...

Jun 22, 2026, 7:09 PM

Her Name Was Ghazal

Numbers remain numbers. They carry no faces, no voices, no laughter, no grief We consume them as news, discuss them for a moment, and then move on. But behind every number is a life—a son, a daughter, a brother, a...

Jun 21, 2026, 6:12 PM

Three Laws for Living When Life Breaks

Three Laws for Going On Living When Life Breaks Apart I was walking with Yohanita through the park near the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. There, once again, we saw a group of Ukrainians gathered together. Whenever Yohanita sees them, something...

Shlomi Nahumson

Jun 21, 2026, 11:01 AM

Father’s Day without a father: Lessons from children of Israel’s fallen heroes

IDF soldiers place Israeli flags on graves of soldiers during the flag laying ceremony in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2026, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The nation remembers its heroes, but children need to remember their fathers as people: Did he like fishing? Football? Dad jokes?

Jun 18, 2026, 2:34 AM

The symphony of war has returned

IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon, in 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

5 movements, from the deep thud as guns fire and shells whistle overhead to the voices of children in a future of strength, purpose, and life

Deborah Villanueva

Jun 17, 2026, 5:34 AM

Healing a Nation: What Hadassah Means to Israel’s Body and Soul

Photo of the author courtesy of the author.

There are moments in Israel when the line between emergency medicine and emotional survival disappears. You see it in hospital hallways. You hear it in the voices of teenagers carrying grief too large for their age. You feel it in...

Jun 9, 2026, 1:14 PM

Get to Know Activist and Educator Moran Goldschmidt of Speak Up Jew

You probably recognize Moran Goldschmidt as the outspoken activist in the orange Batman shirt, combatting antisemitism from her Instagram platform @speakupjew. But what you might not know is she’s also an educator who impacts kids across the globe with...

Jun 7, 2026, 10:04 AM

Another soldier fell in Lebanon. I know his loving mother

Illustrative. A woman hugs her son. (iStock)

Stopped in my tracks by the pain of a woman who knows she'll never hug her son again, I try to do my best for my own boy, even as we argue about his shoes

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