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Jul 13, 2025, 11:46 PM

Deborah sits under a Mother Tree and listens

Perhaps the Prophet Deborah under her tree it isn’t so much about the prophet as it is about the tree. A Mother Tree is connected to all the other trees in a forest; all the trees are networked in community...

Peter Himmelman

Jul 13, 2025, 11:41 PM

The betrayal (entering the mindset of Gazan workers in the weeks before 10/7)

I want to share something that haunts me. Not because I agree with it—and certainly not because I find it morally acceptable. I want to explore it because it happened, because it is real. And because it has, in...

Jul 13, 2025, 12:21 PM

Kai Wegner Defends Israeli Flag Flying in Berlin

Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner attends the 2023 Israel Day event in Berlin. Photo: Michael Kuenne

In October 2023, Berlin's mayor, Kai Wegner, made a simple, human choice. He raised the Israeli flag in front of the Red City Hall as a gesture of compassion. It was not just an act of political symbolism. It...

Jul 12, 2025, 12:33 PM

One Week in July – About October, News and Sources

Comme il Faut, Levontin St., Tel Aviv -- variation on some of 10 commandments

A friend told me this week that her son is looking for a rental place in my neighborhood. She mentioned that when he rented for the first time as a student, when they were olim hadashim (new immigrants), she...

Jonathan Zausmer

Jul 11, 2025, 5:45 PM

Gaza: The End Game – 2025

Right now the government of Israel faces a serious choice: either to seek an end to the ongoing war in Gaza at this time or to continue as before. The latter means drawn out hostage negotiations whereby both sides...

Jul 11, 2025, 7:38 AM

To Those I’ve Lost (In The UK)

Never forgotten

Dear well intentioned ones, We need to talk. Yes, you there. Typing furiously away in response to my lived experience online; someone who you used to know, who you thought existed in the same black and white world which you inhabit....

Michael Feldstein

Jul 10, 2025, 11:13 PM

The Forgotten Hostages of Yesteryear

With the recent military strikes by both Israel and the United States on Iran’s nuclear reactors, and Zohran Mamdani’s surprising rise to become the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, there has been very little talk of...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 10, 2025, 11:03 PM

Our young lions

In Parshat Balak, the theme of animals keeps popping up: Balak, the king of Moav’s father was named Bird (Tzipor). Bilam, the sorcerer rode a she donkey (aton). Bilam asked Balak to prepare seven altars where they sacrificed a bull (par) and...

Shannon Cummings

Jul 10, 2025, 1:43 PM

The Dinah Report and our Western shame

As The Dinah Report exposes the brutality of October 7 in forensic detail, this article examines how parts of the west responded not with condemnation, but with celebration. A reckoning with hypocrisy, silence, and the cost of looking away.

There are moments when civilization is confronted with such depravity that the only moral position is clarity. Not context. Not complexity. Just clarity. October 7, 2023, was one such moment. And now, The Dinah Project has handed the world something...

Jul 10, 2025, 12:05 PM

Payback Time for Israel

Now that things are back to normal, more or less, and the euphoria over how Iran’s nuclear infrastructure has been severely disrupted if not entirely destroyed has calmed down, a bit of perspective is called for. Throughout the week...

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