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Gershon Blumstein

Oct 11, 2026, 5:38 PM

What Judaism Teaches About Loss and Hope

There are moments in life when we lose more than what happened. We lose what we believed would happen next. A marriage ends, and we lose not only the person but the years we imagined growing old together. A diagnosis changes...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

When the Heart Breaks

What Judaism Teaches Us About the Future We Thought We Had Heartbreak takes more than a person from our lives. It takes a future. There is the conversation you thought you would have next week, the journey you imagined taking together, the...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 6, 2026, 8:57 PM

The Judaism That Lives

How Halakhah Learns to Read a Changing World Beneath almost every Jewish question lies another, more difficult one: How do we live Torah in a world that keeps changing? We are about to ask that question in ways no previous generation...

Oct 6, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Heavens Belong to God: May a Jew Leave Earth?

Apollo 8 Flight Plan, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-apollo-8-delivered-moment-christmas-eve-peace-and-understanding-world-180976431/
Overlaid with astronaut:, stock photography licensed via Canva

Early Space exploration precipitated an interest in how Jewish law might be kept beyond the confines of planet Earth. Before asking how Halakha could be observed in Space, we need to return to an earlier question: whether humans may...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Judaism That Lets Us Become

What We Inherit, What We Change, and What We Give Forward I have carried a question for most of my life, though I did not always know I was carrying it. What does it mean to inherit Judaism? For years, I believed...

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Oct 2, 2026, 10:25 AM

Simchat Torah: Where there’s change, I find hope

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Dancing with the Torah was once a hard sell for many Orthodox women, but it's the default for the next generation in my shul – a quiet revolution on the women's side

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 2, 2026, 6:53 AM

Bible vs. Talmud: The Irony of Haredi “Torah” Study

The cycle of Torah reading ends and begins again tomorrow on Simkhat Torah (in Israel; on Sunday, overseas). But what exactly is meant by “Torah”? It depends on who you ask. And the (very surprising) answer holds within it...

Sep 30, 2026, 12:21 AM

What Kind of Brotherhood Are We Offering Our Sons?

When I saw the story out of Wisconsin, I recognized the scene before I even finished reading it. Police responding to an anonymous tip at an Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house near the University of Wisconsin–Madison said they found roughly...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 27, 2026, 4:56 AM

Analysing Moses – Take off your Sandals.

Taking Off Your Sandals: Humility Before God, Responsibility Before Others Approach revelation with humility. Trust God with the unseen. Use your intellect—and protect other people’s rights. Moses عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ approaches a fire. Then he hears a command that changes the significance...

Whimsy Anderson

Sep 22, 2026, 11:57 PM

Why I Cannot tell Young Women to Make Aliyah

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I cannot, in good conscience, encourage women — especially young women — to make aliyah. I would reverse that only when life for women in Israel actually improves. Not the slogan. The law, the street, the army, and the...

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