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Jul 31, 2026, 10:39 PM

A tip of the kippah this week to Gazan writer Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib for the evocative title of his new book, Hamas and Its Two Million Hostages. Whatever readers ultimately think of the book itself, the title captures an...

Jul 31, 2026, 7:49 PM

Lifechanging Experiences: Volunteering at Hadassah’s Hospice

The author with Michal Fleisher, head of the volunteers at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. Photo courtesy of the author.

This is the first of an ongoing series on volunteering at the Ina and Jack Kay Hospice at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. “Life, though precious, is a gift to be relinquished and returned. Sooner or later, we must bid farewell...

Jul 31, 2026, 6:28 PM

The Journey Doesn’t End at the Airport

Tour 16 departing Israel at the end of FZY Israel Tour 2026

Yesterday, the final FZY Israel Tour buses left for the airport. For more than 600 chanichim, three extraordinary weeks in Israel had come to an end. Bags were packed, friendships were celebrated, and parents waited eagerly for arrivals back...

Steven Windmueller

Jul 31, 2026, 5:59 PM

Windmueller on the Principles of Jewish Political Behavior

This essay is the second in a series of articles unpacking my core ideas. The first framed my thoughts on community, power and technology. This paper addresses my thinking about Jewish political practice and behavior. Over more than five decades,...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 31, 2026, 5:19 PM

Israel First, Citizens Last

Sharren Haskel has proposed an elegant solution to Israel’s democratic deadlock: everyone may vote, but not every vote may be allowed to govern. Her proposed role for Israel First is remarkably clear. The party would prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from rebuilding...

Jul 30, 2026, 6:43 PM

Four Questions for task of Heshbon HaNefesh

This week we begin the countdown to Rosh Hashanah. On July 23rd we communally commemorated Tisha B’Av, the date according to our tradition that marked the destruction of the First Temple (586bce) and the Second Temple (70ce). Many other...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 29, 2026, 7:02 AM

Democracy Is a Courtesy

Democracy Is a Courtesy Israeli public discourse is impressively democratic. Every few days, someone announces that democracy is in danger: the courts are attacked, the attorney general is targeted, ministers question institutional limits, and independent offices are treated as irritating...

Deborah Villanueva

Jul 28, 2026, 8:08 PM

Reproductive Justice and the Sacred Work of Care

As a licensed clinical social worker and doctor of social work, I have spent much of my career sitting with people during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Sometimes those moments involve trauma, grief, violence, poverty...

Jul 28, 2026, 1:56 PM

Is Social Media Quietly Undermining the Sanctity of Marriage?

"Comparison is the thief of joy." Theodore Roosevelt's timeless observation may never have been more relevant than in the age of Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. Over the past two decades, social media has transformed every aspect of modern life. It...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jul 28, 2026, 1:54 PM

The moral clarity of Boy George

Boy George performs with Italian Senhit, representing San Marion in the first semi-final of Eurovision 2026. (Screenshot, YouTube)

With so many choosing silence or worse, it's shockingly refreshing to hear an old favorite defend my people's humanity. I'm fan-girling all over again

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