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Jun 18, 2025, 11:24 PM

A Land of Promise and Peril: Reflections on Parshat Shelach

This week has presented us with a piercing reminder of how biblical stories can reflect the urgencies of our present. Just last week, I cited Moses’s declaration from Numbers 10:35: "Advance, O God! May Your enemies be scattered, and...

Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Jun 18, 2025, 9:28 PM

A Message to My Fellow Jews – We are Family

I do not know everything. I know that learning and growing will be a lifelong journey. What I do know, is Jewish brothers and sisters are family. Sometimes families fight, disagree and live different lives. We are still family....

Yishai Friedman

Jun 18, 2025, 8:47 PM

Swords of Iron, Iranain Threats, and Bomb Shelters

The war Israel now finds itself in—dubbed Swords of Iron—began with Hamas’s brutal surprise attack on October 7th, a day that was both a national tragedy and a profound religious date: Simchat Torah, the joyous conclusion of the Sukkoth...

Ziona Greenwald

Jun 17, 2025, 11:19 PM

This time is different. This mission that Israel undertook to secure our own people – our future, our Jewish state – is more monumental and consequential than any IDF operation most of us have seen in our lifetime. It is the...

Jun 17, 2025, 8:33 PM

Nobody’s Child – My Mother’s Southern Jewish Upbringing

My Mom went to jail when she was ten years old. Her father wasn’t happy. The road to Mom’s trip to prison began in Russia. My grandfather was about seventeen years old when he had just been drafted into the Czar’s Army...

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Jun 17, 2025, 7:32 PM

6 Ways You Can Support Vulnerable Children Now

Photo by Manuele De Luca from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/children-embracing-in-picturesque-tuscany-landscape-32547495/

The United States may be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are still home to a huge population of profoundly vulnerable children affected by a myriad of issues. For example, there are over 9 million...

Este Abramowitz

Jun 15, 2025, 11:57 PM

Baruch HaShem, my husband Chaim and I just welcomed our newborn son to our family. He’s named after Chaim’s father Kalman, who was a great man and whom I’ve written about in an earlier article. And we added on...

Jun 13, 2025, 1:57 PM

Since October 7th I’ve imagined what kind of future awaits my son once he reaches army age My happy go lucky 6 year old boy going on… 18 Today he’s chasing butterflies in the wind But when I close my eyes, there...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 10, 2025, 4:47 PM

The Jewish Home is a Mini-Sanctaury

Parshat Behaalotcha begins with the topic of lighting the menorah (Bamidbar 8:1-2): God spoke to Moshe saying: “Speak to Aaron and say to him: ‘When you light the lamps toward the face of the menorah shall the seven lamps cast...

Jun 8, 2025, 11:22 PM

The other day, as I sat in my friend Lee's car, listening to him tell a tale about his yiddisha momma. Yes, I know what you're thinking. "Mort, another story about Jewish moms---like we haven't heard enough about these creatures...

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