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David Rosh Pina

Jun 3, 2026, 3:07 PM

David Rosh Pina

We enter this world with a cry and a breath, Every step that we take is a dance closer to death, We cling to what's fleeting, what time will refuse, We cherish, we love, but we're born to lose. He...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

May 28, 2026, 2:01 PM

Where Was God When He Asked for Water

A mother hides her children during the Salvadoran civil war.

There are nights that never end. They do not remain in the past. They return quietly, without warning, and sit beside you as if they had never left. One of those nights still lives in me. During the Salvadoran civil war, when...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

May 28, 2026, 3:57 AM

Michelle: Israel’s Eurovision Lament for Europe

Mons, Belgium. Photo by Emmanuel Codden / Pexels.

There was something almost unbearably poignant about this year’s Israeli Eurovision entry. On the surface, Michelle appeared to comply perfectly with Eurovision’s insistence on political neutrality: a multilingual love song, wistful, romantic, and melancholy, about a toxic relationship and lingering...

May 26, 2026, 9:03 PM

The Breath Between: Consciousness, Evanescence, and the Art of Re-Entry

The evanescent self

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini This essay revisits my earlier essay on consciousness. The process we often use to describe the experience (from our own first-person awareness to investigators who seek to measure it) requires that evanescent memory...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

May 18, 2026, 5:08 AM

Before I Knew the Name

Childhood in El Salvador during the civil war.

There are things the body recognizes before the mind has a language for them. When I was a child in El Salvador, I attended a small church with my mother. It was not a Jewish place. It did not call...

May 1, 2026, 7:45 PM

Fighting the Evil at Its Very Home

The Birdman of Auschwitz: New Exhibition at the House 88 Reviewing Essay in two parts. Part II. Part I can be read here. Thought-provoking and unusual exhibition The Birdman of Auschwitz: Science and Faltered Conscience has been opened at House 88 in Oswenziem,...

Eliezer Avraham

May 1, 2026, 1:44 AM

The Threads We Carry

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Reflections on gratitude, heritage, and the giants who shaped our community LIVING LEGACY: CARRYING FEZ INTO THE FUTURE How one man’s journey reminds us what it means to build home, history, and hope A Life That Spanned Continents and Centuries Attending the memorial...

May 1, 2026, 12:36 AM

Adrenaline as an Anaesthetic for Auschwitz

A Ferris wheel in the outskirts of Kraków, Poland (Photo courtesy of the author)

A Jewish‑school teacher in Budapest recently proposed a two‑day trip for 16–18‑year‑olds: one day at the Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial, the next at a Polish theme‑park, complete with rollercoasters and bumper cars. Her stated reason was that Auschwitz is “too depressing”...

Apr 30, 2026, 6:58 AM

Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better?

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk- Ger Sterk in the Sinai in 1978

Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better? Today it is April 30th, 1978. My father opened the tent after a good night’s sleep somewhere in the desert near Palmyra. As a disciplined soldier, he dropped to his knees and began...

Apr 29, 2026, 12:33 AM

Revisiting Conscience. Or Absence of It.

The Birdman of Auschwitz: New Exhibition at the House 88 Parallels: People’s Lives and Deeds Some while ago, not that far from now, Ambassador Mark Wallace was discussing things with his friend, famous architect Daniel Libeskind. The conversation was, in a...

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