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Menachem Rosensaft

Feb 18, 2026, 3:19 AM

Far-right antisemitism: “a growing cancer”

An article by my friend Thane Rosenbaum should be read by and circulated to all those ostrich-like political conservatives who ignore, deny or trivialize present-day antisemitism in their midst. “The antisemitic fervor and hatred of Israel on the far right...

Michael Zoosman

Jan 8, 2026, 5:56 PM

Honoring Victims Without Killing: The Tree of Life and Israel’s Death Penalty

Joyce Fienberg (Idit Balt’chah bat Abba Menachem), Z’L, 75 Richard Gottfried (Yosef ben Chaim), Z’L, 65 Rose Mallinger (Rayzel bat Avraham), Z’L, 97 Jerry Rabinowitz (Yehuda ben Yehezkel v’Selma), Z’L, 66 Cecil Rosenthal (Sisel Chaim ben Eliezer), Z’L, 59 David Rosenthal (David ben Eliezer),...

Michael Zoosman

Nov 23, 2025, 6:54 PM

Why 21st-Century Judaism Should Reject the Death Penalty – in ALL Cases

Note: An original version of this article appeared here in Evolve on October 6, 2025. —————————————————————— While Israel now considers executing convicted terrorists by lethal injection, it bears repeating why the nearly 4,200 members of the group “L’chaim! Jews Against the...

Sherwin Pomerantz

Oct 28, 2025, 4:49 PM

Seven Years Since the Pittsburgh Massacre

It is now seven years since the mass shooting at the Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, the worst mass murder in history of Jews on American soil. Eleven Jews at prayer on a...

Michael Zoosman

Oct 28, 2025, 12:30 AM

Opposing the Penalty of Death in all Forms: From the Tree of Life to the Gaza Genocide

“With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s...

Michael Zoosman

May 2, 2025, 6:28 PM

Shattering La Vie en Rose: A Vancouver Mental Health Outreach Worker’s Response to Mass Killing

The horrific car ramming event that slaughtered eleven attendees and maimed dozens more at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival on April 26, 2025, was Vancouver’s baptism by fire into a club into which no city seeks membership. This urban gem...

Audrey N. Glickman

Apr 22, 2025, 7:50 AM

BLAMED. Image by Audrey N. Glickman, used with permission.

Jews are blamed. Even when folks hold us high, saying they support us, we are blamed. They prop us up and point, the better to aim the blame. What is blame? Blamed if I know. (They used to say that...

Audrey N. Glickman

Dec 25, 2024, 9:33 PM

The Difference Between a Sentence of Death and Life in Prison

"Sentenced," artwork by Audrey N. Glickman. Used with permission.

For millennia, humans have sentenced criminals to death, exile, or excommunication. The purpose of such a sentence is to sever the criminal from society, to separate the person from potential new victims and from followers and acolytes whom he might...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:36 PM

Yom Kippur 2024 and Coping with Vulnerability

There is, perhaps, no other time in the Jewish calendar year that we feel as vulnerable as we do on Yom Kippur. Denied all physical pleasures, we spend the day in synagogue asking God for forgiveness and atonement for...

Audrey N. Glickman

Feb 5, 2024, 3:26 AM

Healing, Resiliency, and Learning: Tree of Life Pittsburgh

The author blows a shofar on a rooftop. Photo used with permission.

All who are yearning, let them come. All who feel disconcerted, let them come and harmonize. All who are in need of healing, let us help you begin. I have been reading quite a few articles recently of the op-ed variety in...

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