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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
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...
Tova Kramer
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...
Adam Borowski
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...
Ally Levine
Jul 2, 2025, 7:18 AM
Sirens, Silence, and a Sun-Soaked Flag in Wartime
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
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...
Yaakov Lieder
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...
Simmy Allen
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...
Adam Borowski
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...
Shoshana Lavan
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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