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Jun 17, 2026, 9:04 PM

Teaching Our Children in Unsteady Times

There are moments when children ask questions much larger than the words they use. It may be something they heard in school, saw online, or overheard between adults. A headline may have reached them before we had the chance to...

Jun 17, 2026, 5:48 AM

Whose Life Is It Anyway? Why We Are Still Fighting

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As I follow what is happening to women today, I recall one passionate high-school history lesson describing how hard women were forced to fight for the right to vote. It took decades of conflict before the 19th Amendment, prohibiting...

Deborah Villanueva

Jun 17, 2026, 5:34 AM

Healing a Nation: What Hadassah Means to Israel’s Body and Soul

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There are moments in Israel when the line between emergency medicine and emotional survival disappears. You see it in hospital hallways. You hear it in the voices of teenagers carrying grief too large for their age. You feel it in...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 16, 2026, 5:44 AM

Our Eternal Love

Mike Leven knows the answer. He published it in eJewish Philanthropy on June 3rd, calm and confident and almost entirely without alarm. Tamim Academy schools work. The data is unambiguous. The economics are scalable. Eighty schools for fifty million...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 15, 2026, 4:15 AM

The De-escalation Trap

The De-escalation Trap When peace does not remove danger, but transfers it. A ceasefire can be a moral achievement. It can also be a technology for moving danger from one body to another. This is the uncomfortable distinction hidden inside much...

Eliezer Avraham

Jun 14, 2026, 5:28 PM

America 250 | Essay 4: From Ellis Island to the American Dream

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A journey of hope and reinvention as families crossed an ocean with faith and determination, weaving Jewish resilience into the American fabric. From Exile to Arrival They came with little more than hope. Between 1880 and 1924, nearly two million Jews...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 14, 2026, 10:08 AM

Be Bold and Settle Our Entire Land of Israel

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government moved forward with one of the most significant Zionist initiatives in decades, allocating over $350 million to authorize and establish 61 new Jewish communities in the ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria....

Hagit Zadok Fefferman

Jun 14, 2026, 5:07 AM

Was Grandpa Boris Holocaust-y enough?

Boris's Last Laugh: Boris Silberberg smiles as his wife Rose kisses their son at his bar mitzvah while their daughter wraps her arms around them. After surviving the Holocaust, Boris and Rose built a family that now spans four generations.

He thought nobody would want to hear his survival story, which featured black-market smuggling and daring escapes. I'm afraid he was right

Jun 14, 2026, 4:54 AM

The Burden of Jewish Morality

A man is attacked in a parking garage at night. He has under a second to read intent, distance, and the possibility of a weapon. His heart rate climbs past 150 and his fine motor skills begin to fail....

Shamai Leibowitz

Jun 12, 2026, 6:29 PM

A Palindrome Every Society Needs

Have you ever heard of aibohphobia? It’s the fear of palindromes—words that read the same forward and backward. Look closely at the word itself, and you'll enjoy the irony: aibohphobia is a palindrome! You cannot afford to "suffer" from this phobia in this week's parsha,...

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