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Jul 17, 2026, 8:20 PM

Jewish Democrat, 38, Seeking a Political Home

Must like complexity. No litmus tests. SEEKING: One functional democracy. Must like complexity. ABOUT ME: 38, Jewish, Democrat, Mainer. Believes in civil rights, reproductive freedom, liberal democracy and, yes, Israel's continued existence. Not interested in pretending those values can't coexist. Dating in...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:25 AM

Hubris, Humility and Hashem

So here we go again. I'm so stressed. The extensive security check at the Israeli Consulate. This time in Munich. We must explain who we are, how we're connected, and why we came. No! We didn't come with anybody,...

Eric M. Leiderman

Jul 13, 2026, 5:02 AM

Did America Prove Herzl Wrong?

Theodor Herzl never witnessed the rise of American Jewry. This illustration imagines Herzl overlooking New York as the United States emerged as the most successful Diaspora community in Jewish history. (AI-generated illustration created with ChatGPT/OpenAI. Not a historical photograph.)

Theodor Herzl remains one of the defining Jewish thinkers of the modern era because he recognized a truth that many of his contemporaries preferred not to see. Writing amid the rise of European nationalism and in the shadow of...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jul 11, 2026, 9:08 PM

I Still Call Myself a Gay Liberal

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I still call myself a gay liberal. At least, that is how I define myself. Whether every person who now claims those words would still permit me to use them is a different question. I want to think aloud about...

Jul 9, 2026, 8:47 PM

Heteropessimism & Heterofatalism–Is It Really All Men’s Fault?

It’s one thing to point out the very real challenges modern women face in dating. It’s quite another to say it’s all his fault. Much is being written about “heteropessimism”/“heterofatalism”–modern first world women's frustration and disappointment when dating men. In...

Itai Eithan Shamir

Jul 6, 2026, 3:15 AM

Canada’s Eurovision Debut: A Vote for Connection!

Just when Eurovision fans were settling into the post-contest off-season, and critics were ready to declare the contest in retreat, the European Broadcasting Union reached across the Atlantic and added a maple leaf to the scoreboard. On July 1 —...

Natasha H. Pein

Jul 5, 2026, 11:35 AM

250 Years of Freedom: Don’t Take It for Granted

250 Years of American Freedom

This Fourth of July is unlike any other. America is celebrating 250 years of freedom. It is 250 years since a bold nation declared that liberty was worth fighting for and that people were born with rights no government could...

Jun 30, 2026, 10:21 AM

The masks of 2026

This week, I landed in New York for a work trip that happened to coincide with NYC Pride Week. This wasn't my first time experiencing Pride in the city, but my most vivid memory takes me back to 2020....

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 30, 2026, 4:05 AM

No One Passes the Purity Test

Source: https://x.com/decadimitry/status/2070677434845077698

Scott Wiener wrote the laws. The movement he championed drove him from its own march. Grace did my mother’s hair. She was in our home, in the ordinary traffic of the house, and no one thought there was anything to...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Jun 29, 2026, 3:04 PM

Scott Wiener gave the mob everything. It wasn’t enough

The California state senator who toed the progressive line at the expense of his own liberal Jewish and Zionist beliefs is being villainized as a puppet of Israel

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