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Aug 28, 2026, 10:29 AM

The Altneu Beginning

The Jews stood on the cusp of the realization of a dream, first envisioned over a quarter of a millennium earlier. Whether as drifting strangers in the Land of Canaan, beaten slaves in Egypt, or weary wanderers in the...

Aug 28, 2026, 6:36 AM

Bring Your Congregation into the Black Book of Life

Times are Tough for Temples

Congregations across the United States and around the world are struggling to keep their doors open. Fewer people are becoming members; synagogues and temples are being forced to merge to be financially viable; even twice-a-year Jews are dwindling. Part...

Aug 27, 2026, 5:51 AM

The Legal Theory Orthodox Jews May Come to Regret

A developing application of federal forced-labor law raises a question Orthodox Jewish institutions should take seriously: When can the powerful influence of a religious leader or close-knit community be treated by the government as evidence of psychological coercion? The question...

Aug 25, 2026, 3:03 AM

Is This The Kind Of Aliyah We Currently Need?

Jake Turx, senior White House correspondent for Mishpacha magazine, recently proposed on X what he called an “eight-billion-dollar idea”: build a development in Israel tailored to the needs, standards, and lifestyle of American Chareidim, then use it as a...

Michael Feldstein

Aug 23, 2026, 6:22 PM

From Brooklyn to the Burbs: The Sephardization of American Orthodoxy

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I recently stumbled across a statistic that completely blew me away. According to a 2025 NYU/Brandeis study commissioned by JIMENA, roughly 10% of American Jewish adults—about 590,000 people—identify as Sephardic or Mizrahi. Now, I knew there were thriving Syrian communities in...

Aug 20, 2026, 3:02 PM

Book review – Between Torah and Derech Eretz

A few months ago, a collector from Israel went around with the attached tzedakah card. The card described an impoverished family whose children were sleeping on the floor. It then explained that the father learns Torah all day, resulting...

Aug 13, 2026, 3:09 PM

7 questions to Haredi leaders on not drafting to the Israeli army

Ultra-Orthodox rabbis, including Degel HaTorah party spiritual leader Rabbi Dov Lando, attend a rally against the arrest of draft-dodging yeshiva students outside of the military prison at Beit Lid, August 14, 2025. (Sam Sokol/The Times of Israel)

Ultra-Orthodox rabbis relate to the IDF and to the possibility of their own drafting in ways that seem to undermine the very Torah they say they are protecting

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 10, 2026, 8:16 AM

The Birth of Ontology and it’s relevance to AI.

When God Taught Adam the Names of All Things Before the first city, before the first library, before Aristotle drew up his categories, before a scientist classified a species, and long before an engineer constructed a knowledge graph, the Qur’an...

Aug 7, 2026, 7:26 PM

When Did We Start Needing Labels?

This morning I was sitting on my mirpeset with a cup of coffee, replaying a conversation I had with my son the night before. It started with what seemed like a simple question. He asked me to compare him and his...

Jul 28, 2026, 10:23 AM

Finding My Way Home: Parashat Va’etchanan Through the Eyes of the Husiatyn Rebbe

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Dedicated to my father, Alexander ben Rachel, with a prayer for his complete and speedy recovery—a refuah shleimah. Part I. The Prayer That Changed the Future Every year, as I read Parashat Va’etchanan, I return to the same question. Why did Hashem...

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