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Aug 27, 2026, 10:53 PM

Shalom Brothers: The Undivided Man (Ki Tavo)

One of the easiest things in life is to know what kind of person you want to be. One of the hardest is to become that person. Most of us have little trouble naming our values. We believe in honesty,...

Aug 27, 2026, 5:43 AM

Parshat Ki Tavo: Tell the Whole Story

There's the way we tell our life story when somebody asks, and then there's the true version. The one we say out loud usually skips the hard parts. We fast forward past the bad years, the times we almost didn't...

Aug 26, 2026, 10:24 PM

National Grief Awareness Day: What Grief Has Taught Us

Grief has a way of changing how we measure time. There is life before loss, and life after it. For many Israelis, October 7th, and the war that has followed, became that dividing line. Since then, every holiday, birthday, family...

Michael Feldstein

Aug 25, 2026, 6:20 PM

Breaking the Silence: Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot

Rabbi Nathaniel ("Nati") Helfgot occupies a distinctive place in Modern Orthodox life as a rabbi, educator, scholar, and communal leader. Yet for many people, one of his most enduring contributions was not a scholarly book or a halakhic essay...

Aug 25, 2026, 12:07 PM

We Cannot Afford to Return to October 6

The October Council, an organization formed by bereaved families, survivors, families of hostages and others directly affected by the October 7 massacre, has issued a warning that cannot be ignored. Its new report raises the possibility that Israel does...

Aug 22, 2026, 11:17 AM

Inches to Metric: Merkaz Lavi – PTSD/PTG (Post Traumatic Growth) #2

Merkaz Lavi-PTSD center.

The Magic in Reality I wrote a prior blog Merkaz Lavi (click), explaining why/how we got involved in creating our center, and issues regarding PTSD. This dives deeper into how we went about creating/manifesting Merkaz Lavi. Manifesting! What does it take...

Aug 21, 2026, 8:34 AM

Shalom Brothers: When a Son Stops Being an Extension of His Father (Ki Tetzei)

Family life is messy at worst and meaningful at best. Parent-child relationships are not as easy to navigate as one might think. Just because parent and child might share a genetics or an emotional bond, that does not mean...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 21, 2026, 5:30 AM

19th Fisesp Aging Seminar unites 325, expands to Latin America

Celia Parnes, Ricardo Berkiensztat and Sueli Schreier with the Joint delegation

The Jewish Federation of the State of São Paulo (Fisesp) gathered 325 participants this Wednesday (19) at Unibes Cultural for the 19th edition of the Aging Seminar, which this year had the theme “Aging in the 21st Century –...

Aug 20, 2026, 8:47 PM

The Digital Front Door Helps Support a New Generation of Children Where They Are

If child protection is to remain relevant and effective, it must reinvent itself. Today, 85% of ELI’s intake arrives online rather than through traditional phone lines.

We live in an era where the primary gateway to a child’s world is no longer a knock on the front door, or even a ringing telephone. It is a screen. For older generations, picking up the phone to...

Aug 20, 2026, 1:03 PM

Parshat Ki Teitzei: He Comes for Us When We’re Tired

Mental Health in the Parsha is dedicated l'ilui nishmat Zev (Will) Shakin, z"l, who lived with a deep love of Israel and the belief that we must love our brother as ourselves, v'ahavta l'reacha kamocha. May his memory be...

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