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Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 2, 2026, 9:10 PM

Stomping on our enemies

The days between Tu B’Av and Sukkot have always been considered the wine pressing season in the Land of Israel. The farmers would be out in the vineyards harvesting the grapes which would then be brought to the winepress...

Sep 2, 2026, 1:35 PM

They didn’t wake me. My hands aren’t clean.

“They didn’t wake me.” And my hands cannot be washed clean There are phrases that set out to explain a catastrophe and end up revealing something rather deeper. “They didn’t wake me” is one of them. Benjamin Netanyahu now maintains that, in...

Sep 2, 2026, 5:10 AM

Who Should do Teshuva? Parshat Nitzavim Vayelech

FOREWORD This week I was fortunate to be with my immediate family to celebrate the bar mitzvah of my grandnephew. In addition to being honored with the third aliyah, I was invited to give a talk in the afternoon. As I...

Aug 29, 2026, 12:14 PM

The Celebrity Megaphone and the Morning After

The third and final installment in a three-part series examining what actually comes after “Delete Israel.” Terminology note: Wherever possible, I use “Gazans” when referring specifically to the people of Gaza. I use “Palestinian” primarily when quoting or referring to...

Todd L. Pittinsky

Aug 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

Teach the Holocaust. Lose the Label

The word "genocide" was supposed to make evil unmistakable. Today, it does the opposite. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in to name the unthinkable—the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Holocaust educators adopted it almost immediately as its organizing category, using...

Joel D. Roberts

Aug 25, 2026, 6:47 PM

‘October Return’: The Coded Warning English Doesn’t Capture

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We've all heard the expression “don't judge a book by its cover.” In the case of Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz’s recent October Return (an update of their previous The War of Return), I would shift to “don’t judge...

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 23, 2026, 5:46 PM

When September 11 Vividly Meets October 7

When September 11 Vividly Meets October 7th The sacred weight of Memory. This year, something feels different about the impending High Holidays. Although l am preparing to sing the High Holiday Arias (which is always a daunting task). Erev Rosh Hashanah...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

The Work of Living After October 7

ALS scares me. So does terrorism. Both force us to confront how suddenly life can change. I did not come to Tuesdays with Morrie as someone revisiting an old favorite. I came to it after October 7, carrying questions I...

Aug 17, 2026, 7:57 PM

Understanding the Information War

For most of Israel's history, the battle over international opinion was fought within a relatively centralized information environment. Newspapers, broadcast television, wire services, academic publishers, and a limited number of institutions served as the principal gatekeepers of public knowledge....

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