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Juda Engelmayer

Jul 7, 2025, 12:07 AM

To Understand the Jews, Walk in Our Footsteps — Not Just Past Our Gathered Shoes

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A Jew as a poisonous mushroom PRAGUE — I stood today before gravestones so old their Hebrew letters are more memory than inscription. Some lie buried so deep that only the tips protrude from the earth. The stones lean and...

Jul 4, 2025, 6:03 PM

To the Grade 6 class of 2025, Jerusalem, Israel

“Imma, just please don't cry.” Was my son's answer when I asked him if I could speak at his graduation ceremony on behalf of the parents in his school in Jerusalem, Israel. I promised him I wouldn't. I felt there...

Jul 4, 2025, 12:12 AM

The paranormal and warfare

The paranormal is a misnomer. I prefer the unexplained. I used to be in an organization documenting the alleged cases of the unexplained. We had contact with all sorts of people, from all walks of life. There were some...

Jul 2, 2025, 7:18 AM

Sirens, Silence, and a Sun-Soaked Flag in Wartime

Photos from my time in Israel and Jordan 6/12-6/20

On Friday morning, June 13, after a night of missile sirens, I walked down to the beach in Tel Aviv. The air was thick with heat and the leftover anxiety of too little sleep, but the Mediterranean sparkled like...

Charles Asher Small

Jun 30, 2025, 10:05 PM

Undoing Qatar’s hold on US classrooms

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators unfurl a banner on a lawn after an encampment protesting Israel over the Gaza war with Hamas was taken down at Brown University, April 30, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Today marks a quiet but deeply significant moment in the struggle for academic integrity in the United States: Brown University officially shut down its widely influential Choices Program for K-12 educational programming. For decades, this curriculum, used in more than...

Jun 30, 2025, 12:13 PM

The “However” Effect: How One Word Can Build or Break Confidence

Part I: Personal Perspective— Education and Life Experience If you have 30 seconds… In my early years as a principal, before every parent-teacher night, I would gather the teachers and give what I thought was a crucial piece of guidance: “Always begin...

Mindy Rubenstein

Jun 25, 2025, 11:12 PM

A New Day in Israel

I'm sitting on a bench outside Nili School. My usual spot. I see two huge Israeli flags. Children are outside playing. Laughing. A breeze moves through the thick, humid air.. Life continues. It’s a break between my classes, after 12 days away from school. We...

Jun 25, 2025, 10:47 PM

The National Whiplash Effect

Just yesterday, we were at war. Not last week. Not last month. Yesterday. It wasn’t a theoretical war, and certainly not metaphorical. It was war in the clearest, most harrowing sense—filled with death, destruction, and dread that hovered above us...

Jun 22, 2025, 6:07 AM

Language, genius, prayer, and God

As a linguist, I continue to be amazed by how much language influences who we are. Our identity. Indeed, one could assert that languages we speak not just shape, but influence, how others see us and how we see...

Jun 21, 2025, 3:23 PM

What does the news want?

If you truly think it’s good enough, you can watch the news. The news will tell you what to think. Then you can open Facebook on your phone and post about us. We’re thousands of miles away, but that’s...

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