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Barry Mellinger

Aug 9, 2026, 6:38 AM

Never Again, Has Blinded Us

I am a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, barely survivors. Survivors who stepped out of the camps into a world emptied of everyone they had ever loved. Survivors who emerged with no surviving family, no parents, no siblings, no child,...

Aug 9, 2026, 6:37 AM

Teaching Encounter Like Martin Buber

Martin Buber, 1950, Public Domain, The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives (via Harvard University Library)

One hundred years ago, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber published “Education” in the inaugural issue of Die Kreatur. He edited the quarterly with Protestant physician Viktor von Weizsäcker and Catholic theologian Joseph Wittig. Weimar Germany was no nursery of interfaith amity....

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 9, 2026, 6:35 AM

When No One Is Watching, What Does G-d See?

Character is rarely tested in the moments we prepare for. It is not proven only in the grand public causes we argue about—justice, war, peace, or the future of nations. Often, it is revealed in unwatched moments: a medical...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Aug 6, 2026, 5:43 AM

The Bridge That Held Us Together

Puente Litoral (later widely known as Puente de Oro), over the Lempa River in El Salvador, photographed on January 20, 1953. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, via Wikimedia Commons.

In 1988, a dog with rabies bit me in San Jorge. I do not remember the bite as clearly as I remember what came after it: the buses, the hospitals, the bridges, and my older brother sitting beside me...

Barry Mellinger

Aug 3, 2026, 1:24 PM

Certainly a Jew but not Jewish

Public discourse commits a basic category error: it treats Jewish descent and Jewish identity as if they are the same. They are not. And refusing to distinguish between them produces predictable distortions that harm the Jewish people. Jewish descent is...

Aug 2, 2026, 9:43 AM

Babel in the Nine Days

The Sanhedrin's written ruling is dated 6 Menachem Av. Hold that date for a moment before anything else. Three days before Tisha B'Av. Inside the nine days when we do not build, do not celebrate, do not so much as...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 2, 2026, 4:50 AM

The Angels of our nature.

One of the oldest questions humanity has ever asked is also one of the most personal. Are human beings fundamentally good? Or fundamentally violent? Modern psychology has wrestled with this question for decades. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, the psychologist Steven...

Natalie Sopinsky

Jul 29, 2026, 1:27 PM

The lie of the soft life

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No matter where you live, watching someone you love suffer and knowing you cannot ease their pain is hard. Israel trusts us to manage anyway

Jul 29, 2026, 7:34 AM

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn’t the finish line.

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn't the finish line. I used to think that once the words were out — once I'd finally said what happened, once other women stood up behind me — the hardest part was over. I...

Jul 27, 2026, 4:09 AM

One woman’s journey from fear to faith-rooted courage

For three years, I told myself that silence was love. Every time I chose not to speak, I convinced myself I was shielding the people I loved most from a pain I couldn't take back once it was out...

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