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Jul 6, 2026, 3:38 AM

English B’Yachad: Building Ties, Improving Opportunities

Batel and Dvorah - English B'Yachad Student and Mentor

Wartime exhaustion, stress and uncertainty have recently dominated conversations. But life goes on, as does my special window and connection to Israeli life through Isha and Batel. Diaspora Jews have generously responded to Israel’s post-October 7 trauma with financial support...

Jul 6, 2026, 3:12 AM

We Are Still In It: Diaspora Jews & the Grief that Changed Shape

We Are Still In It: Diaspora Jews & the Grief That Changed Shape

For many Jews in the diaspora, the world has moved on faster than our nervous systems have. The headlines have shifted. The public outrage has been redistributed. The language has changed. But for many of us, the rupture has...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 4, 2026, 10:26 PM

The Abyss Taught Me That Connection Is Everything

This week I had one of the most frightening dreams of my life. In it, I was severed from everyone I had ever known or loved—not merely alone, but cast into an emptiness beyond light, beyond warmth, beyond relationship...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 4, 2026, 10:08 AM

Collective Responsibility in Modern Practice

In a recent essay, I interrogated collective responsibility as one of those dangerously predictable historical mechanisms that keeps returning, not through scattered anecdotes but through patterns that reappear under shifting political language. Since that piece appeared, two unrelated news...

Jul 2, 2026, 9:26 AM

What My Patriotism Demands

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On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, patriotism is on my mind – thinking how to observe this milestone for our country while also examining my expression of national pride. As a political liberal I frequently analyze the most common...

Jonathan Muskat

Jul 1, 2026, 8:01 AM

250 Years of America – and a Question American Jews Can No Longer Avoid

This July 4th, America celebrates its 250th birthday. As I think about that milestone, I find myself feeling two emotions at the same time. The first is gratitude. America has been extraordinarily good to the Jewish people. Few countries in Jewish history...

Jun 30, 2026, 10:21 AM

Connection to Israel is built through experience

When thousands of Jewish athletes arrive in Israel for the 2026 Maccabiah, they will come to compete. But they will also be doing something much larger than sport. They will be showing up. And at this moment in Jewish history,...

Alexander Lutsenko

Jun 29, 2026, 6:58 PM

The False ‘Nazi Salute’ and the Trap Set for Israel and Ukraine

“It Was a Misunderstanding,” Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Asman Publishes a Statement and Video with Korchynsky After the Scandal Around “Bratstvo” and the Israeli Embassy in Ukraine. There are stories that should never be treated casually in Israel. Anything connected...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:24 PM

Bankstown Nurses Ruling is No Vindication — Just the Law at Work

The exclusion of the viral video is a setback for the prosecution, but it does not erase what was said, what was admitted, or the deeper fear the case has unleashed in the Jewish community. The exclusion of the Bankstown...

Silas Anastacio

Jun 28, 2026, 5:56 AM

Rikuday Festival’s 10th Edition Unites 2,000 Through Dance and Art

The 10th edition of Rikuday – Dance and Art Festival of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP) – gathered more than two thousand people last Sunday at the Memorial da América Latina, in a celebration marked by intergenerational encounters, and...

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