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May 19, 2026, 8:28 PM

The Second Driveway

The first time taught me what to look for. The second time, I already knew. I was fourteen the first time I came home to a driveway full of cars and didn't understand what I was looking at. It was January...

May 4, 2026, 6:40 PM

The Indian Tribe That Walked Halfway Around the World to Israel

A vintage suitcase bearing the Star of David rests on an airport runway at dawn, symbolizing the end of a 2,700 year exile for the Bnei Menashe.

I want to begin with a number: 2,700 years. That is how long ago, according to their own account, the ancestors of the Bnei Menashe left the land that is now Israel. They did not leave willingly. In approximately 722...

Apr 29, 2026, 8:26 PM

Iran Then and Now: A Changed Reality

From Refuge to Hostility: Iran, Jews, and a Changing Narrative In 1942, as World War II tore across continents and dismantled entire lives, nearly a thousand Jewish children arrived in Tehran after a long and devastating journey through Europe...

Apr 29, 2026, 5:51 AM

Forgetting Your First Love/First Country You Flee

I didn’t know it at the time, but I met my first real love when I was fifteen. He was tall and confident, that was my first impression of him. We wouldn’t get together until four years later after...

Apr 22, 2026, 12:17 AM

What the Arab World Taught Us About Anti-Zionism Long Before Ezra Klein

Image from JIMENA's Distinctions Journal, 2025

Dear Ezra Klein, I am a Jewish community leader based in San Francisco, California, directing a national nonprofit that focuses on advancing the heritage, history, and rights of nearly one million Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Middle East....

Apr 19, 2026, 9:13 AM

Zionism is love: The costs of this land

Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, Jerusalem

Every Israeli knows the language of loss and return, for we pay in blood for our beloved country, with its roots in laughter and food, safety and connection

Apr 17, 2026, 1:39 PM

The Tehran Children: A Forgotten Route to Survival

In the summer of 1942, nearly a thousand Jewish children—many orphaned, all displaced—arrived in Tehran after a long and brutal journey across war-torn Europe and the Soviet Union. They had fled Nazi-occupied Poland, endured hunger, disease, and forced displacement,...

Apr 14, 2026, 5:48 PM

What Your Jewish Friends Can’t Say

What Your Jewish Friends Can't Say

If you have Jewish friends, they're probably feeling something right now that they're not telling you. Not because they don't trust you. Because every time they've tried to say it, the conversation ends. They get labeled. Dismissed. Told to "wake...

Sarah Ansbacher

Apr 13, 2026, 6:53 PM

A pocket guide to defiance

A Pocket Guide Against Air-Raid Attacks -- cover and title page (National Library of Israel - Public Domain)

Hidden in the pages of a World War II air-raid manual lies a mystery -- and a daring testimony about brutality and betrayal on the shores of the Holy Land

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 10, 2026, 6:41 AM

Blunt Truth: Hezbollah’s Defeat Pays Off

Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his government to immediately begin direct peace negotiations with the Lebanese government. The goal is straightforward: full Hezbollah disarmament south of the Litani River and the establishment of peaceful relations between the...

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