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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 5, 2026, 7:46 AM

Wider Lessons of Gay Pride Month: MEeting the “Enemy”

Israel started its Gay Pride Month celebrations yesterday with Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade. Tel Aviv's march – the largest in the Middle East – will take place next Friday (June 12). Whether we "agree" or not with homosexuality, there’s...

Jun 4, 2026, 4:34 AM

Tel Aviv celebrates what its neighbors criminalize

Tel Aviv Pride, 2019 – where rainbow flags and the Star of David meet in one of the region’s most visible displays of LGBTQ+ freedom. (Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons)

On June 12, a quarter-million bodies will press against the Mediterranean shoreline of Tel Aviv-Yafo for the 28th edition of what has calcified into the most consequential Pride procession in the Middle East – and, by any honest geopolitical...

Jun 3, 2026, 10:37 PM

Losing My Identity as an Oleh Chadash

Photo by Yeshaya Dinerstein
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I write a lot about joy. The joys of being Jewish, the joys of being in Israel. Making aliyah is the most exciting and joyful thing I’ve ever done but there’s a difficult side to these first few months...

Jun 3, 2026, 3:05 PM

Media Fallout From Carney’s Antisemitism Speech

I don't really see myself as a media outlet, but rather as an ordinary Jewish Canadian living in extraordinary times and facing extraordinary pressures. I hope that my arguments and experiences are somehow informative and representative of yours. And...

May 25, 2026, 11:36 AM

Seattle’s World Cup ‘Pride Match’: A Collision of Activism, Culture, and Sport

(via YouTube, September 2018)

When the City of Seattle decided to brand one of its 2026 FIFA World Cup matches as a “Pride Match,” city organizers likely believed they were sending a message about inclusion, diversity, and the values the city wants to...

May 15, 2026, 8:34 PM

Just Say No To Rape Culture and LGBTQ Exploitation

The Jewish lesbian feminist writer Muriel Rukeyser once asked, "What would happen if a woman told the truth about her life?" Her answer, "The world would split apart." Buckle up. We're in for some uncomfortable truth-telling. Like many of you...

Apr 24, 2026, 8:43 PM

A Big Progressive Fail

October 7th should have been the warning against genocidal Jew hatred, but we saw the opposite happen on October 8th among Progressives. Hatred for Israel and Jews blew up on campuses and communities. Hamas was celebrated and its virulent death...

Apr 22, 2026, 10:22 PM

When will Jewish Lives Matter?

Not in a way that diminishes anti-Black racism or any other struggle, and not as a comparison, but as a broad movement of anti-racist activists who have had enough of anti-Jewish hatred and are prepared to say, publicly and...

Monique Dietvorst

Apr 3, 2026, 5:48 PM

Matt Walsh, Puritanical Thinking, and the Extremes It Creates

The Pendulum Swing: How Puritanical Thinking Fuels the Extremes It Claims to Oppose In today’s culture wars, figures like Matt Walsh present themselves as defenders of tradition, morality, and order. But there’s a deeper pattern at play—one that rarely gets...

Mar 13, 2026, 2:04 PM

On missiles and matchmaking

A dating app concept. (iStock)

As I will my dating app to connect me with plausible relationship material, I realize that the guy who didn't write back might not be avoiding me, but rockets

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