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Natasha H. Pein

Sep 4, 2026, 3:30 PM

When Democracy Forgets Its Jews

Canada, remember who you are! From Soviet discrimination to Canada's crisis of moral clarity

I escaped a country that marked Jews. I never imagined Canada would forget how to protect them. Look at the photograph of the little girl holding a Soviet passport. That girl is me. In the Soviet Union, your passport did not merely...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:31 AM

The People We Love Keep Becoming

Ki Tavo and the courage to love someone you haven’t fully met yet I think we set the bar for love far too low. We talk about finding someone who will love us “just the way we are.” But if you are...

Aug 29, 2026, 9:29 AM

The Ship that Nearly Divided a Nation

The Altalena burns off the Tel Aviv coast on June 22, 1948, as civilians watch from the promenade.
Photo: Hans Pinn / Government Press Office, State of Israel

It was June of 1948. The State of Israel was barely five weeks old. Arab armies were attacking from every direction and the Jewish people were fighting for their very survival. It was then, on a beach in Tel Aviv,...

Aug 27, 2026, 3:25 PM

At the Table, Not Under the Canopy

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The Bride, the Friends, and Those Left in the Outer Darkness There is a primary, undeniable romance running like a golden thread through the Hebrew Scriptures: Hashem is the Husband, and Israel is His Bride. Every covenantal mechanism, every boundary stone,...

Alejandra Barav

Aug 24, 2026, 5:36 AM

The Mitzvah of the Dropped Plan

What our canceled summer vacation taught me about catching unexpected light. We had the passports sitting on the counter, the itineraries printed out, and that sweet daydream of a family summer in Europe. We were ready to wander down cobblestone...

Aug 23, 2026, 6:15 AM

The Connection Between Mitvot of Shiluach HaKen and Kibbud Av VaEm 5786

Honoring Motherhood: The Connection Between Shiluach HaKen and Kibbud Av VaEm The Torah commands us to honor our parents: כַּבֵּד אֶת־אָבִיךָ וְאֶת־אִמֶּךָ “Honor your father and your mother.” The most obvious explanation for this mitzvah is gratitude. Our parents gave us the greatest...

Aug 22, 2026, 9:32 PM

Where difference becomes power

An Ethics of Position in Parashat Ki Teitzei I think, based on my structural and epistemological reading of the parashah, that Ki Teitzei is not primarily constructed as a collection of scattered laws. It is a discipline of consciousness in...

Aug 22, 2026, 11:19 AM

The Wedding Hamas Could Not Stop

Yesterday, I watched videos of the wedding of two people I have never met, with tears in my eyes. I was not among the thousand guests celebrating under the chuppah of Eliya Cohen and Ziv Abud at Ronit Farm...

Philip Goldwasser

Aug 21, 2026, 7:56 PM

‘You May Not Hide Yourself’: The Torah’s Call to Ethical Responsibility

Parashat Ki Teitzei contains more mitzvot than any other parashah in the Torah—traditionally counted as seventy-four. Its commandments cover an astonishing range of life: the laws of warfare; the obligation to pay a worker on time; the requirement to...

Talyah Ginsberg

Aug 21, 2026, 6:40 PM

74 mitzvot, four men, one possible match

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Parshat Ki Teitzei has plenty to say about relationships. CoronaCrush gives you seven minutes to figure one out

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