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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...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Don’t Wait Until Death to Learn How to Live

Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel about Eddie, an aging amusement-park maintenance worker who dies trying to save a child and then meets five people in heaven. Each encounter helps him understand a...

Jul 30, 2026, 12:25 PM

Judaism is Not a Religion Part 2

What I am about to write may be uncomfortable for some to read. It is surely very uncomfortable for me to write. However, in order for us to understand our current and future situation, I have to put this...

Menachem Creditor

Jul 29, 2026, 9:48 PM

Love Is Showing Up (Tu B’Av)

To my wife, with infinite love Tu B’Av is one of the lesser-known holidays on the Jewish calendar. My dear friend and teacher Dr. Ora Horn Prouser, with whom I recently edited a Tu B’Av supplement for the Academy for...

Jonathan Muskat

Jul 29, 2026, 12:22 AM

Beyond the Circle at the Kotel: From Ahavat Yisrael to Achdut

On Motzaei Tisha B’Av, I saw a picture circulating online. Jews of every imaginable background – religious and secular, from different communities and with different hashkafot – standing together at the Kotel, singing and dancing in a circle. It was...

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