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Mitchell Hansen

Nov 9, 2026, 12:36 AM

When They Say ‘Zionist,’ They Mean Jews

Every January, a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes the rounds: a long, eloquent "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend" that ends by calling anti-Zionism anti-Semitism. The problem is - he didn't write it. The letter claims to...

Nov 4, 2026, 2:54 PM

Rebekah’s Agency in Chayei Sarah: Vulnerability and the Fate of Women

The expression “There, but for the grace of God, go I” is traditionally attributed to the sixteenth-century English preacher John Bradford, who supposedly uttered it upon seeing prisoners being led to execution. It expresses an uncomfortable recognition: another person's...

Nov 2, 2026, 4:11 AM

My New Zionist Guitar And Post Election Thoughts

Howdy and shalom once again. I send special greetings to my friends in Israel who have just gone through one of the most tumultuous and momentous election campaigns. Results are still mixed but are sorting themselves out. Despite the many...

Ruthie Hollander

Oct 29, 2026, 10:28 PM

And salt she became

'Eshet Lot' (Lot's Wife). (Wikimedia Commons)

Maybe Mrs. Lot broke the rule and looked back at Sodom out of regret. Or curiosity. Or compassion. I'm sympathetic because I'd have looked back too (Vayera)

Oct 27, 2026, 5:08 PM

Vayera: Trauma, Moral Choice, and the Possibility of Another Way

Parshat Vayera contains some of the most disturbing and some of the most hopeful stories in the Torah. It begins with Abraham opening his tent to strangers and ends with the Akedah, the binding of Isaac. Between these two...

Lila Steinhardt

Oct 26, 2026, 9:02 PM

The Tolerance Epidemic

"Where are the women?" When I was about ten, my Girl Scout troop, Troop 3484, stood on the corner of 77th Street and Central Park West chanting that question at passersby. Central Park had 23 statues of men and not...

Oct 20, 2026, 3:00 AM

The Progressive Silver Lining Around Israel’s Political Cloud

Sunlight breaks through the clouds over Jerusalem. (Photo: Yair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Years ago, my oldest daughter—now a human rights lawyer—spent 8th grade in an Ultra-Orthodox elementary school in Atlanta (don’t ask; life takes strange turns). Rav Mordechai Eliyahu was going to be visiting the school, and the girls were making...

Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein

Oct 12, 2026, 7:41 PM

How the World Sees Women in Charge

Fifty years ago, it was rare to find a woman in a senior management position. Data from the United States in the 1950s and 1960s suggest that women were virtually absent from these roles. As more women entered the...

Oct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

So you want my vote?

It used to be so easy to pick a candidate to vote for in the United States of America. Over the years I’ve had no issues casting my vote. That was until the last election. I just couldn’t make myself...

Ilana Gimpelevich

Oct 2, 2026, 1:00 PM

The Torah Has Always Been Mine.

When did my obsession with Simchat Torah start? For a girl from the former Soviet Union who did not grow up religious, my awareness of Simchat Torah began in my teenage years, when I attended a girls’ high school....

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