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Oct 13, 2026, 2:40 PM

Oct. 7 made it impossible to ignore what’s missing from Israel education

Students at Beth El Temple in West Hartford, Connecticut add to a communal art piece marking the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks, Oct. 7, 2024. (Tyler Russell/Connecticut Public via Getty Images)

We need to help Diaspora Jews build a relationship with the country that can hold the weight of reality – even in difficult times

Oct 12, 2026, 12:08 AM

We Love the Same Land. So Why Don’t We Understand Each Other?

Tomorrow, my daughter leaves for Israel. She grew up in Miami, Florida. Sunshine, comfort, opportunity. She has always been an exceptional student, with the kind of academic future that could open doors almost anywhere. Georgetown had been a dream, and...

Oct 11, 2026, 4:45 AM

Jewish Educators: Everyone Deserves to Learn

Rafi speaks with a group of students at Temple Emanu-El of Closter, January 2026.

To protect the anonymity of all professors and teachers in the article, they will be referred to with they/them pronouns and will not be identified by the subject they teach. Their actions, whether good or bad, should serve to...

Silas Anastacio

Oct 11, 2026, 1:16 AM

The World Has Changed: Fisesp Day Explores Future Challenges

The event will feature a special appearance by actors from the series Fauda. The Jewish Federation of the State of São Paulo (Fisesp) will host Fisesp Day next Sunday, October 18, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Teatro Porto...

Chavi Eisenberg

Oct 8, 2026, 11:56 PM

Teaching the stories that disturb us

On difficult narratives in Tanakh and the responsibility of teaching them. This week, I taught a group of 18-year-old seminary students one of the most disturbing stories in all of Tanakh. Actually, I taught them two. We were learning about intertextuality,...

Oct 7, 2026, 5:35 PM

Inner Lights Throughout a Year: Art & Miracles

Shavuot. The Heaven’s Window. Watercolour, oil pastel, wax pastel, pigments, Luminance Caran d’Ache on authored original archival print on cotton paper. 2022-2026. Private collection, Finland.

Presentation of a new Inner Lights: Jewish Year art collection of the works of artistic interpretation of an annual circle of Jewish holidays Part III of 3 Part 1 can be read here. Part II can be read here. From Purim to the...

Oct 6, 2026, 3:41 PM

Inner Lights Throughout a Year: Art Dialogues

Hanukkah. Dialogue. Watercolour, oil pastel, wax pastel, pigments, Luminance Caran d’Ache, perle le blanc on authored original archival print on cotton paper. 2024-2026.

Presentation of Inner Lights: Jewish Year art collection featuring artistic interpretations of an annual circle of Jewish holidays Part 2 of 3 Part I can be read here. From Shemini Atzeret to the New Year for Trees Continuing the presentation of new Inner...

Oct 6, 2026, 1:48 AM

From Magneto to Sabra the Jewish stories inside comic books

Each year I go to New York Comic Con, I look for the Jewish connection: a compelling comic, a familiar character with an unexpected history, or a story that opens a conversation about who we are. As a huge...

Oct 5, 2026, 6:57 PM

Inner Lights Throughout a Year: Art & Life

Inna Rogatchi (C). Circle of Hope.

Artistic re-examination of an annual Jewish Holidays New Art Collection Part I of 3 With a new Jewish year started recently, and the new Torah annual circle taking off, it is an appropriate time for presenting the new art collection re-examining an...

Daniel R. Weiss

Oct 5, 2026, 12:13 PM

Who are we losing in Jewish day schools?

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Who are we losing in Jewish day schools? I have been asking it since reading David Zalik, co-founder of the Zalik Foundation, whose eJewishPhilanthropy piece, “Jewish day schools are a bubble, and that is the point,” argues that children...

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