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Jun 4, 2026, 11:27 PM

For Father’s Day: My Dad’s Life of Curiosity and Hospitality

The author's family photographed in 1968: Steven, Michele, Dorothy, Janet, Howard Braun. Photo courtesy of the author.

My father really enjoyed Hadassah Magazine. As a dyslexic, he read slowly and also very carefully. As an intelligent individual, he had a significant vocabulary and particularly appreciated well-written and well-thought-out articles. I suspect he read each issue more...

Jun 4, 2026, 8:03 PM

The Heavenly Horizon: A Spaceman’s Shabbat

Rabbi David Shloush, 2008 (Wikipedia, https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Rabi_david_shloush.jpeg, Public Domain)

On 1 April 2026 – the eve of Passover 5786 – NASA launched a crewed spacecraft on a flyby trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. This was the first crewed flight near the Moon since Apollo 17...

Jun 3, 2026, 9:19 PM

Micros and Macros in Chelsea, New York

Walking peacefully through Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood this spring, I felt unexpectedly content. A melody kept following me: “I want you, I want you…” That romantic song by Bob Dylan had always embodied New York for me. Yet this visit felt far more...

Jun 1, 2026, 2:51 PM

An Afternoon in Kathmandu

I had a small small talk with a short barista with a lovely huge smile in a cafe in Central Kathmandu yesterday. He asked me: “Chai, good?” I was quite in my own world, but I was pleasantly surprised...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

May 18, 2026, 6:38 PM

Baltimore: Actually, I Like It

For decades, Baltimore carried a reputation many Americans knew long before ever setting foot there. Crime headlines, abandoned factories, and political scandals painted the city as a symbol of urban struggle. By the 1990s, Baltimore’s once-powerful port economy had...

Rachel Horowitz

May 15, 2026, 10:37 PM

Jewish Teen Travel and the Power of Diaspora Journeys

One of the effects of the massacre on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 and the war with Iran in 2025, has been the cancellation of trips to Israel, leading American Jewish youth to pivot to what are...

May 15, 2026, 12:13 AM

Engaging in Judaism and the Modern World, Without Losing Identity

This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest. Drawing on the teachings and writings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, students were invited to reflect on contemporary questions through the lens of his...

Alexander J Linton

May 12, 2026, 7:07 AM

The New Jewish Diaspora Is Not Where You Think

From Limassol to Koh Phangan, Jews are building lives in places our grandparents would not have put on a map. Increasingly, that is the rational choice. The wandering Jew has a new itinerary. For most of the past century, the mental...

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...

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