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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sep 4, 2026, 3:16 PM

God is in the field — but I live in the city

We are elbows-deep into Elul, and they tell us that God is in the fields. This is an old teaching: During the month before the High Holy Days, the King leaves the palace and comes out to meet us where...

Sep 3, 2026, 4:58 AM

Choosing To Trust Queen Esther In The Olam Hafuch

The path Jewish progressives walk is narrow and suspended over an ever-widening divide between their community and their politics. I don't envy progressive Jews or really anyone Jewish located within the left umbrella, all the moreso for how eager...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 2, 2026, 9:10 PM

Stomping on our enemies

The days between Tu B’Av and Sukkot have always been considered the wine pressing season in the Land of Israel. The farmers would be out in the vineyards harvesting the grapes which would then be brought to the winepress...

Shayna Goldberg

Sep 1, 2026, 8:01 PM

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I'm grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer's began taking him from us

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Aug 27, 2026, 5:20 AM

When Where I Live Requires an Explanation

Before I left Israel for a week-long vacation to the Turkish riviera, I took off my necklace. It was a simple gold necklace with my name written in Hebrew. I had worn it almost every day since moving to Tel...

Aug 26, 2026, 12:48 PM

‘I have chosen the way of faith’

Shas party's election campaign kick-off event in Holon, central Israel, August 20, 2026. (Yaakov Cohen)

As President Rivlin's chief of staff, I came to understand Haredi resilience: Don't think you can frighten or embarrass the community into abandoning its principles

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 22, 2026, 11:36 AM

A Loaf of Bread in the Shadow of War.

What the Torah, the Qur’an and the neuroscience of hope teach us about kindness when hatred becomes easy Sometimes societal change begins with a loaf of bread. A ration card passed secretly across a table. A false identity written onto a...

Menachem Elyah Paull

Aug 21, 2026, 6:02 PM

Why I Am Leaving Montreal at 70 · עוזב בגיל שבעים

The Erasure Aliyah at Seventy — Post One of Three Menachem Elyah Paull Nine months ago I asked an editor in Jerusalem to erase me. She did it in two days. Two days. I have waited longer than that for a plumber. I have...

Aug 21, 2026, 12:33 PM

Sometimes, I really wish there were a God

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I'm a confirmed atheist, but I've come to see that humanity is hard-wired for faith. So I still don't believe, but now I feel like I'm missing out

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