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Peter Samuelson

Aug 8, 2026, 12:54 AM

When Silence Is Safer Than Speaking

As a Hollywood producer, I've spent much of my career around artists, actors, musicians, and storytellers. One thing I've learned is that there are moments when speaking up comes at a cost. Publicists advise caution, studios worry about backlash,...

Aug 6, 2026, 10:15 PM

My Pride is in Our People

This past weekend, while Vancouver celebrated Pride, I found myself thinking less about the parade and more about the people I am privileged to work alongside every day. For years, and especially since October 7, we at Jewish Federation of...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 6, 2026, 5:50 AM

Bal Tashchit (בַּל תַּשְׁחִית): The Rabbinic Limit

Amalek, Halakhah and the Courage of Rabbinic Leadership Few passages in the Hebrew Bible have provoked more argument, discomfort and serious reflection than the command concerning Amalek. To the modern reader, these verses are among the most difficult in Scripture. They...

Valerie Robin Clayman

Aug 4, 2026, 7:20 PM

Let’s hear it for the Boy. George.

Music is life to me. I have meticulously soundtracked specific years, months, and events in my memory palace. My personal music collection holds over one thousand compact discs and over three hundred vinyl albums. I have attended over two...

Karen Lieberman

Aug 2, 2026, 6:14 PM

Pride Goeth Before a Fall: Queers for Palestine? Really?

Another Islamist terror attack – this time on a Pride parade. A van plowed into the Berlin Pride Festival killing one woman and injuring 29 others. The driver was 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots. Ballout had...

Jul 29, 2026, 6:42 AM

Orthodoxy and homosexuality: Expanding our imagination

When will it become a given in Modern Orthodox and religious Zionist communities that some of our members are gay, that many of them wish to remain in our communities, that we should wish for the same, and that...

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...

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