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Maccabi Lev Ari

Jun 4, 2026, 9:50 AM

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Sponsor: Qatar’s Quiet Conquest of the West

Imagine a country the size of Connecticut, floating on an ocean of natural gas, that set out to do what the Soviet Union never quite managed: reshape Western institutions not with spies or tanks, but with checkbooks, campuses, media...

Jun 2, 2026, 10:28 AM

About bad PR and not voting for Netanyahu…

In this week's Torah portion, today's aliyah, Hashem threatens to destroy the Children of Israel after the tragedy of the Spies. To save the People, Moshe Rabbeinu immediately replies, "The nations who have heard of Your reputation will say...

May 29, 2026, 6:30 PM

Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times, and the Changing Role of Journalists

In the spring of 1978, I found myself in the middle of a newsroom occupation. I was a reporter at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian at UMass Amherst, covering student government and local politics. A sit-in led by the paper’s women’s...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

May 27, 2026, 11:40 PM

Looking Past ‘Silenced No More’

A Google search for the current headline returns the article with the original verb still indexed.

A newspaper does not need to lie to reposition reality. Sometimes it can do so through something far quieter: the placement of uncertainty. On May 12, the New York Times gradually transformed the headline on its coverage of a two-year...

May 27, 2026, 8:20 PM

When Words Become Moral Certainties

I practiced and taught psychotherapy for over 40 years. Over time, I learned that repeated narratives can acquire weight of established truth independent of evidence. People do not simply experience facts. They experience interpretations, fears, memories, identities, and emotional...

May 21, 2026, 11:21 PM

What Nicholas Kristof Teaches Us About Antisemitism on the Political Left

Photo credit: Brooke Balentine on Unsplash

The mainstream political left demonstrates a particular form of antisemitism. It is not overt hostility, but something harder to identify: motivated reasoning, a preconscious worldview that governs what a person finds credible, what requires proof, and onto whom the...

May 21, 2026, 10:36 PM

Beyond Kristof’s New York Times Column, a Strategy to Compare the Uncomparable

Last week, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published an opinion essay alleging widespread and lurid sexual violence against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. ‘’The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians’’ immediately sparked worldwide outrage, with critiques ranging...

May 20, 2026, 3:06 PM

Why Jewish teens aren’t ready to take a stand against biased reporting

Illustrative: Millennials using cell phones. (via iStock)

When adults streamline reality, they erode kids' trust; instead, we must help them navigate the complexities of the information they source in their pockets

Honey Kessler Amado

May 19, 2026, 12:03 AM

Context or Content in Responding to Kristof in NYTimes

Regarding Nicholas Kristof’s recent, May 11 New York Times column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” ( .) Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times column of May 11, 2026 addresses alleged abuse, including sexual abuse, against Palestinian men, women,...

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

May 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

Great TV: ‘Boston Blue’ & Its Shabbat Tradition

Screen shot from Boston Blue where they celebrate shabbat from a hospital room. Photo by and courtesy of JLM.

In a time of chaos and conflict in the world, I am a big fan of shows that take a problem and solve it in an hour. It is probably good for my mental health. Real life rarely offers quick...

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