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Sep 4, 2026, 3:48 PM

Jerusalem Is Not Just a City — It Is Something I Feel

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

There are cities I have seen, cities I have admired, and cities whose beauty I can appreciate from a distance. Jerusalem is different. For me, Jerusalem is not simply a destination on a map. It is not just ancient walls, holy...

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 24, 2026, 11:00 AM

The Love That Never Left Me

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk - Time To Stand Up For Israel(AI)

There are many ways to fall in love with Israel. Some people discover Israel through religion. Others through history, family, politics, a first visit to Jerusalem, military service, or the simple realization that after thousands of years of exile, the...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

The Work of Living After October 7

ALS scares me. So does terrorism. Both force us to confront how suddenly life can change. I did not come to Tuesdays with Morrie as someone revisiting an old favorite. I came to it after October 7, carrying questions I...

Neshama Carlebach

Aug 19, 2026, 12:17 PM

Less alone than I thought

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach with daughter Neshama Carlebach. (Courtesy)

Reckoning with my father’s complex legacy, I’ve discovered how many others are struggling to reconcile love for someone with the harm they caused

Aug 18, 2026, 10:31 AM

Above the Battlefield: Why Israel Needs Its Air Force

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

When people think about the Israel Defense Forces, their thoughts often go first to the soldiers on the ground. They see young men and women entering Gaza, operating in Judea and Samaria, guarding communities along the borders, searching tunnels,...

Sigalle M. Shpayher

Aug 7, 2026, 8:24 PM

The Blueprint I Had to Burn

“Chanoch l'na'ar al pi darko - Educate a child according to their way." Every Jewish parent knows this verse. We quote it in speeches. We nod knowingly when someone else says it. We find schools with differentiated instruction, we get...

Aug 7, 2026, 4:48 AM

On our 57th anniversary, my true love gave to me, neither a partridge nor a pear tree, but, three colorful pouches to slip into my beach tote, two notable new novels, one fancy book mark, and all his love. So it goes for...

Hannah Zieziula

Aug 6, 2026, 1:14 PM

The family I found in a hostel in Australia

I arrived in Margaret River, Western Australia, completely alone with my backpack and my surfboard. After months of traveling surrounded by friends, I now had to start over to find farm work and earn my second-year visa. Again I...

Barry Mellinger

Aug 3, 2026, 1:24 PM

Certainly a Jew but not Jewish

Public discourse commits a basic category error: it treats Jewish descent and Jewish identity as if they are the same. They are not. And refusing to distinguish between them produces predictable distortions that harm the Jewish people. Jewish descent is...

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