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Eliezer Avraham

Jun 5, 2026, 7:39 PM

Beha’alotecha and the Journey of a Father’s Heart

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When love is misunderstood, when distance grows, and when hope refuses to die Beha’alotecha: When the Heart Carries More Than It Can Hold In Parashat Beha’alotecha, Moses reaches a breaking point. The people misunderstand him, reject the manna he believed would...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jun 5, 2026, 7:46 AM

Wider Lessons of Gay Pride Month: MEeting the “Enemy”

Israel started its Gay Pride Month celebrations yesterday with Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade. Tel Aviv's march – the largest in the Middle East – will take place next Friday (June 12). Whether we "agree" or not with homosexuality, there’s...

May 28, 2026, 2:15 PM

A Crisis of Leadership

It is a moment unparalleled in the whole Torah. Moshe, until now the Jewish People’s greatest advocate, reaches his breaking point. He complains that he was given the burden of leading the Jewish People; he says his death would...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

May 27, 2026, 4:20 AM

Why the Chareidi & Dati Leumi Divide Goes Deeper Than Strictness

We are looking inside a world that outsiders flatten (David Katash, FrockInStock.com).

It is not a frumkeit ranking, but a question of religious instinct, cultural memory, and which world feels like home. Recently, I saw an online discussion on Imamother — a popular online forum for frum women — about whether there...

May 15, 2026, 3:48 PM

‘Jewish terrorism’ isn’t Jewish

Footage shows masked Jews storming the West Bank village of Asira al-Qibliya during an attack on April 17, 2026. (Screen capture/ X)

Wielding power for violence is antithetical to Judaism, so why don't religious Zionist leaders censure the Jews who attack their Arab neighbors?

May 14, 2026, 1:18 PM

The Flag of Humanity

“If they ask me derisively, what is this flag? … a flag is something symbolic and national and with a flag one leads people anywhere one wants, even to the Promised Land. People live and die for a flag...” These...

May 12, 2026, 2:55 PM

The Aguna Crisis Isn’t About Divorce

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In this post analyzing complex layers of an issue in our community, and calling for nuance, I’m going to start with an absolute: The get is not, and should never be, a bargaining chip. Full stop. A get-refuser needs to give...

May 12, 2026, 11:32 AM

Flatbush Girl and the Problem with Neo-Conservative Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy is not merely a Brooklyn neighbourhood of sheitels and babkas — it is a system of obligation (Josh Wilburne, Unsplash).

A righteous cause does not sanctify every tactic. Agunos deserve justice, but Orthodox women’s bodies should not become weapons in someone else’s revolution.

May 11, 2026, 11:09 AM

The Dodo Bird, the Kanaani Cat, and the Jewish Question of What Must Be Saved

There are moments in history when humanity realizes too late that something irreplaceable has disappeared. The Dodo bird became one of those moments. When the Dodo vanished from Mauritius in the seventeenth century, there were no international conventions protecting...

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