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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sep 25, 2026, 6:16 PM

Here’s who I’m inviting to my sukkah

(Sarah Tuttle-Singer)

After so much debate over who is and isn't Jewish enough to speak to, I want to see 10 dramatically different Jews at one table, hashing it out

Sep 25, 2026, 10:04 AM

IF WE LOSE THE ISRAELI SPIRIT

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

IF WE LOSE THE ISRAELI SPIRIT There is something I have been thinking about for a long time, and perhaps Sukkot is exactly the right moment to say it. Our society is becoming increasingly egocentric. Me. My organization. My platform. My followers....

Sep 24, 2026, 5:41 AM

The Sephardic Voice the Jewish World Needs

This past August, around 150 rabbis and community leaders from a dozen countries gathered at the UJA-Federation in New York for the second Sephardic Rabbinic Conference. There were representatives from over 13 U.S. States and delegations from Canada, Mexico,...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Sep 22, 2026, 6:39 PM

‘Their Place Is Not With Us’? Citizenship Is Not a Reward

“Hit them in their pockets and in their citizenship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week, announcing two proposed laws aimed at people he says defame Israeli soldiers abroad. One would dramatically increase damages in defamation cases. The other...

Sep 22, 2026, 6:15 PM

When ‘Life’ Does Not Mean Life: Why Israel Turned to the Death Penalty

Netanel Shukrun went to a spring with his eldest son ahead of Yom Kippur. He never came home. The Israeli father of six was shot near Neve Tzuf on Sunday. Despite desperate attempts to save him, he died of his wounds....

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 22, 2026, 2:25 PM

The four species as a symbol of unity in Israel

Hadas (myrtle) growing in Neot Kedumim nature preserve

In Vayikra 23:40, we read about the four species which are used on Sukkot: You shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of the beautiful tree, a branch of palm trees, boughs of thick leaved trees and...

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Sep 20, 2026, 1:22 PM

Making Yom Kippur count

Yesh Atid MK Debbie Biton taken out by Knesset guards during a a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Fasting is easy. What's hard is taking responsibility not for our close circles, but for those with whom we vehemently disagree

Sep 20, 2026, 9:31 AM

Ashamnu: When Righteous Causes Forget the Other

This Yom Kippur, one word keeps returning to me: Ashamnu. We have sinned. But this year I hear it in a very specific way: we have stopped considering the other. Inside Israel, we see it in our actions. A road was blocked, and...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:11 PM

No Hens Exist Outside the Henhouse

Existential Fascism, Israel, and the Lenses No One Can Take Off There is a rather comfortable mistake we make when we look at a society we consider sick: imagining that we ourselves stand outside it. I look at Israel from Belgium....

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:12 PM

The World Exists for Israel

In Parshat Haazinu, Dvarim 32:8-9, we come across a perplexing idea: When the Supreme One gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided humankind, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of B’nai Yisrael. For the...

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