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Oct 21, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe’s Unfinished Lesson

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk(AI)

When hatred of Jews becomes acceptable, the consequences rarely remain confined to the Jewish community. Europe has a remarkable ability to remember its history while simultaneously failing to recognize its warnings. Across the continent, monuments commemorate the victims of the...

Alexander J Linton

Oct 21, 2026, 9:48 AM

The Stability Premium: France’s Unrest and the Value of Normality

Depending on which media outlets you follow, you could be forgiven for thinking you're watching two entirely different events unfold over the past week in France. On one side, thousands of people peacefully protesting legitimate grievances: the cost of living,...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 21, 2026, 1:08 AM

Parashat Lech Lecha: The “Why” You Are Your Greatest Spiritual Master.

A magical characteristic of life is that even when you think your faith couldn’t possibly be stronger and is arguably the strongest in the world, it can still increase! Everyone knows about the riots in Paris that started last Saturday...

Michael Feldstein

Oct 20, 2026, 5:54 PM

When Rav Kook Met President Calvin Coolidge

Credit: ChatGPT

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook—the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine—was famous for harmonizing the secular and the sacred and for his love of all humanity. But did you know that this posek, poet, bridge builder, theologian, and educational visionary...

Lauren Gladstone

Oct 20, 2026, 2:36 AM

My Professor Saw the Future. I Didn’t Understand It Until Now.

Forty years after a college lecture, I find myself thinking about the dividing lines of our world—and the histories we would rather not confront. I don't remember many of my college lectures. I remember even fewer of my professors' predictions....

Oct 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

The Banality of a Hannah Arendt Drama

Hannah Arendt was one of the 20th century’s leading Jewish thinkers whose phrase “the banality of evil “ was drawn from her seminal work on the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, published in 1963. Eichmann had been the...

Melissa Gotlieb

Oct 12, 2026, 11:16 PM

Between Homes: Roots without Borders

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I have always been from everywhere and nowhere. Born in South Africa, an Italian citizen and raised largely in Brussels, I grew up navigating different cultures and ways of life, later pursuing my studies and international legal career across Brussels,...

Oct 8, 2026, 11:05 PM

Dragør: The Little Fishing Village That Helped Save a Nation’s Jews

The picturesque village of Dragør, Denmark. Photo: New York Jewish Travel Guide.

There are places where history is impossible to miss. It stands in monumental buildings, fills museum galleries, and announces itself through plaques and memorials. And then there are places like Dragør, a beautiful fishing village just outside Copenhagen, where...

Oct 7, 2026, 2:35 AM

No Disclaimers. No Retreat. Proudly Zionist.

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin lights up with the Israeli flag in solidarity after a multi-front Hamas attack, October 7, 2023. (Press and Information Office of the Federal Government)

For years, many European Jews followed an unwritten rule: keep your head down, practice Jewish life quietly, and leave Israel out of polite conversation. The thinking was simple. If we kept our Zionism discreet, we could avoid conflict. We could...

Donna Swarthout

Sep 30, 2026, 4:41 PM

Who Will Light the Menorah at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate this Year?

Anyone without the experience of an American Jew living in Berlin would be convinced of a new reality. The Left (Die Linke) party has won the September 20th Berlin state election and will now bring its antisemitic views and...

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