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Jun 16, 2026, 6:45 PM

Dybbooks: When Possessions Possess Dusty Dreams

Like a modern lyrical Cassandra, the songstress Marina Diamandis sings: "If you are not very careful Your possessions will possess you TV taught me how to feel Now real life has no appeal (Lyrics from Marina and The Diamonds – Oh No!) And as I...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 5, 2026, 7:46 AM

Wider Lessons of Gay Pride Month: MEeting the “Enemy”

Israel started its Gay Pride Month celebrations yesterday with Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade. Tel Aviv's march – the largest in the Middle East – will take place next Friday (June 12). Whether we "agree" or not with homosexuality, there’s...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 8, 2026, 11:26 AM

Israel & the Diaspora Moving Apart: Déjà Vu All Over Again

The relationship between Israel and world Diaspora Jews, especially American Jewry, has been deteriorating these past few years. So what else is new? This is a process that has been going on for the past 2,500 years, ever since the...

Menachem Creditor

May 3, 2026, 10:33 PM

6 JTS seniors oppose President Herzog speaking at graduation. It’s 6 too many

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the funeral of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, in Meitar, on January 28, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Police/GPO)

If we normalize views that undermine Israel, even in the minority, they risk rupturing the very foundations of Jewish existence

Apr 14, 2026, 2:06 AM

Cremation: Unparalleled Cruelty

Why Judaism Rejects Cremation In an age that prides itself on convenience, few topics reveal the moral distance between modern habits and Jewish values as sharply as the question of cremation. What many present as a practical, economical, or even...

Apr 13, 2026, 1:11 PM

How Did We Get Here?

I must admit I’m really not all that smart. This won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who knows me, but what the people I am closest to have figured out is while this is true, I...

Andy Blumenthal

Apr 5, 2026, 5:20 AM

Two Passover Experiences: Precision vs. Passion

This Passover gave me two starkly different experiences. One was a model of meticulous observance. The other was a vibrant celebration of communal joy. Both illuminated vital truths about serving God b’simcha (with happiness). Yet their contrasts left me...

Mar 19, 2026, 11:13 PM

What a Soccer Game on Shabbat Revealed

I went to synagogue this past weekend for a bat mitzvah of a family friend. Coming from an Orthodox background, it’s not something I have done many times in my life. Yet I was very happy to be there, to...

Russell F. Robinson

Mar 18, 2026, 7:41 PM

Reuniting Our Jewish Family

We have allowed others to define who we are. History teaches us the tragic outcomes of allowing this to happen. During the 19th and 20th centuries in Eastern Europe when mobs rampaged through Jewish villages, they did not distinguish between...

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