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Sep 17, 2026, 6:42 AM

The Children of Gaza

Photo Crrdits: Sabine Sterk ( AI, Gemeni)

The Children of Gaza I am sick of watching the children of Gaza being turned into one gigantic accusation against Israel, as though this war began because Israel suddenly decided that it wanted to fight children, while the ideology that...

Robert Lichtman

Sep 17, 2026, 4:40 AM

I Can Be Swayed

These are the Days of Awe, yes. But deep within our Machzor are moments when joy and optimism break through our anxieties. I feel fortunate to be in a minyan that recognizes those moments and celebrates them as each...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:24 AM

Twenty-five years after 9/11

Twenty-five years after the Twin Towers fell, a reporter working on a story about our family’s 9/11 experience told me something that I had never realized: my son Jacob's first memory was breathing through a wet sleeve on the...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Sep 11, 2026, 2:50 PM

Demography as Destiny: Israel’s Really Good News

With the Jewish New Year upon us, we all wish for good news in the coming annum. But it’s been here all along. I’ll start far away, and then quickly move to Israel. Over the past five years, Japan has...

Sep 10, 2026, 9:34 AM

Divorce is traumatic but can be made child-healthy: Erica Komisar’s must-read book

“Divorce is a traumatic experience but there are ways to mitigate it, to help all involved handle it better” says Erica Komisar. “Parents and courts should take the child’s developmental stage into account, and stop thinking of children as...

Sep 6, 2026, 9:40 AM

My grandparents at their wedding - June 20,1946

“Why didn’t grandma give me the “heirloom” that she spoke about?” asked my son, Yoav. “It’s a long story”, I answered. My son, Yoav married his bashert, Danielle on June 7, 2026. My mother, her husband and my uncle (my mother’s brother)...

Hagit Zadok Fefferman

Sep 3, 2026, 5:24 AM

My grandparents told me about Auschwitz at 8; I took baths for a year

A young Hagit with her beloved grandparents, Boris and Rose.

The shiny metal showerhead was staring down at me. From where I stood, it seemed impossibly high above my eight-year-old body. Yesterday, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. Today I stared back at it with fear. Earlier that...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 2, 2026, 5:03 AM

Advanced Engineering behind an Apple.

This article is written with my children in mind - to teach them to observe as scientists in the real world. I believe it’s a very good way to teach all children - outside of school (which isn’t very...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Sep 1, 2026, 7:25 PM

Knowledge Without Understanding: God Bless Toddlers!

"Knowledge without understanding is useless." - Analects, Confucius (551 - 479 BCE) Highlight of any toddler birthday-party is opening the presents. Mommy saved the best for list, a bills-and-whistles car-dashboard, working lights, windshield-wipers, the works. We ask the three year-old if...

Aug 28, 2026, 5:40 PM

Dolly Parton’s Jewish Children

How a country singer’s dream became PJ Library—and brought Jewish stories to my grandson Dolly Parton was an American original. She did not become one by trying to be different. She became one by refusing to be anyone other than...

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