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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

Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Jun 6, 2026, 12:19 AM

The Great Egret has a Request! Shabbat Shalom! 20 Sivan 5786

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B"H June 5th 2026 20 Sivan 5786 "My Dear Children!" The Great Eregt said as he looked down at all of his creations! I love you! I hear you! I will answer all your prayers for good! You matter to me! I will right all that is wrong! I...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 29, 2026, 7:01 AM

Israel’s Haredim: 50 Shades of Black

OK, so the headline here is slightly exaggerated. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox might come in “only” 10-20 different varieties, not 50. However, given that many non-Haredi Israelis view them monolithically (a perception probably more prevalent in the Diaspora), it is important...

May 25, 2026, 3:25 AM

The Longer Repair

(image rendered by Ai- no photography on Shavuot)

There is a midrash that says the Israelites fell asleep the night before they received Torah at Sinai. They had been waiting, and they were tired, and so they slept. In the morning God had to wake them. Tikkun...

May 24, 2026, 12:27 AM

Elizabeth Heyert’s THE UNBORN – what we are all like before we enter the world

Elizabet Heyert’s striking new series Premieres at the Venice Bienalle, continuing the artist’s decades’ long exploration of the human experience. The Unborn consists of nine photographs of pre-natal subjects who were conceived in the first half of the 20th...

Andy Blumenthal

May 20, 2026, 9:41 PM

Seeing Shavuot Through the Eyes of a Child

My five-year-old grandson came up to me this week with a very important Shavuot request: he wanted pictures of the Torah and the Ten Commandments. So we sat down together at the computer, searched for a few beautiful images, and...

May 20, 2026, 3:06 PM

Why Jewish teens aren’t ready to take a stand against biased reporting

Illustrative: Millennials using cell phones. (via iStock)

When adults streamline reality, they erode kids' trust; instead, we must help them navigate the complexities of the information they source in their pockets

May 13, 2026, 4:28 AM

The devil wears cleats

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Despite their TikTok attention spans, my adolescent sons were into the long-form drama about fashion, work, identity, and power - and I learned not to sell them short

May 10, 2026, 11:38 PM

Feeling like Freud at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Were the mental health crises I witnessed in American Jewish teenagers a symptom of a political destabilization already on its way?

Michael Feldstein

May 7, 2026, 10:22 PM

When the wind knew our names

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Once, a bike without training wheels meant freedom. Today's kids are richly programmed with playdates, practice, and carpools. They're missing out

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