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Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein

Jun 3, 2026, 9:09 PM

Writing about Giving Birth

Years ago, I ran into a classmate whom I hadn’t seen for years. I asked her how she was, and she replied, “You won’t believe it—I gave birth a week ago.” I complimented her for her slim figure. She...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jun 3, 2026, 10:45 AM

My Failure as a Mom: Starring the Holy City, mulberries & going to the potty

When life hands you Neuro sparkly and no sleep, you can either punch a wall or decide your life is an indie comedy. My son is 4 — fully aligned with his autism diagnosis. How this translates is that changes...

Jun 1, 2026, 2:49 PM

Last Seen – the unbearable vigil of waiting

There is a particular kind of fear that has no name. It is not the fear of a nightmare, because you are wide awake. It is not the fear of bad news, because the news has not come yet. It...

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...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

May 24, 2026, 6:29 PM

Spoiler: The mob does not pause for complexity

Boris (right) and Sofia Gurman tussle with terrorist Sajid Akram (left) before he carried out the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre, December 14, 2025. (Screenshot)

On that nuanced response you have ready for the guy in the airport who calls you a baby killer

May 13, 2026, 11:48 PM

She Saved My Father’s Life. Yad Vashem Doesn’t Know Her Name

Władysława Kazimiera Jaeger hid two Jewish children for five years under penalty of death. She has never been formally recognized. I am going to change that. My father Edward Singer was five years old when the Nazis marched into Kraków. He...

May 13, 2026, 4:28 AM

The devil wears cleats

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Despite their TikTok attention spans, my adolescent sons were into the long-form drama about fashion, work, identity, and power - and I learned not to sell them short

Jonathan Guttentag

May 10, 2026, 7:32 PM

Until This Day: My Mother’s Matzevah

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Until This Day: Reflections at My Mother’s Matzevah Last week, our family gathered at Agecroft Beis Hachayim in Manchester to set the matzevah for my mother, Mrs Eva — Chava bas Reb Shlomo Osher — Guttentag, a”h. In Jewish tradition, a...

Michael Bresler

May 8, 2026, 11:18 AM

The Stuffed Animal a Teacher Never Forgot

This past week, I ran into my children’s preschool teacher, Stephanie Ziman at the Greater Baltimore JCC. It had probably been close to 14 years. We hugged, smiled, caught up for a moment, and then she asked me a question that...

Aron Schoenfeld

Apr 29, 2026, 12:35 PM

The worst pro-Israel influencer ever

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In this info war, when the other side is shameless about making things up, I find I must brave the trolls – and my own kids' mockery – to respond with facts

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