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Michael Feldstein

Jul 20, 2026, 7:31 PM

It’s the Little Things…

Tova Feldstein (Credit: Michael Feldstein)

Our daughter Tova, of blessed memory, would have turned 39 years old this coming week. It occurred to me recently that it has been a while since I’ve written about her. That certainly doesn’t mean she hasn’t been on...

Robert Lichtman

Jul 19, 2026, 9:37 PM

You Shall Love – Like a Child, I’m Longing to be Told

Dear God, You probably know - well of course You know - that comedians get laughs by sharing matters from their therapy. I heard one where the comedian emerges from his session with a mission to call his father and...

Jul 14, 2026, 4:34 AM

Our Greatest Social Crisis: We Have Stopped Seeing People

We've become great at categorizing people. We've become horrific at just seeing people. We see a political position, a religious label, a social type, a difficult child, an underperforming employee, or someone who has disappointed us. We decide what they...

Jul 9, 2026, 8:47 PM

Heteropessimism & Heterofatalism–Is It Really All Men’s Fault?

It’s one thing to point out the very real challenges modern women face in dating. It’s quite another to say it’s all his fault. Much is being written about “heteropessimism”/“heterofatalism”–modern first world women's frustration and disappointment when dating men. In...

Robert Lichtman

Jul 8, 2026, 8:02 AM

The power of an embrace

photo by Robert Lichtman

It’s truly a beautiful thing when we observe a custom that is universal among all Jewish communities. When we conclude the public Torah reading of parashat Mase’ei and move on from the book of B’midbar we will all chant...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

Jul 7, 2026, 12:33 AM

Helping People Live Until They Die

Many people believe that palliative care begins when medicine has run out of ideas, and they are right. But they are also wrong, and wrong very significantly, because of the unspoken assumption that goes with this belief. That assumption...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 4, 2026, 10:26 PM

The Abyss Taught Me That Connection Is Everything

This week I had one of the most frightening dreams of my life. In it, I was severed from everyone I had ever known or loved—not merely alone, but cast into an emptiness beyond light, beyond warmth, beyond relationship...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:54 PM

Donald Trump’s Transactional Understanding of ‘Love’

In an op-ed in the NYTs by columnist Frank Bruni “Flattery paves the road to the president’s heart” (June 29, 2026), he wrote this definition of what Donald Trump means by “love”: “It’s love as a transaction. A contract. A pact....

Michael Laitman

Jun 25, 2026, 10:29 PM

Why Does Kabbalah View Israel as a Beacon of Unity?

The Jewish people are a microcosm. We were gathered here from all corners of the world in order to serve as a universal model for connection among people who are very different from one another. This is, in a...

Chava (Patricia) Kadoche

Jun 24, 2026, 10:13 PM

We Carry Them With Us

Last night, at the wedding of my cousin's son, I witnessed one of the most moving moments I have experienced since making aliyah. As the chattan stood beneath the chuppah, the names of soldiers from his unit who had fallen...

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