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Jun 6, 2026, 4:36 PM

Why I Write – l’dor v’dor

The tagline of The Jew News Review is l’dor v’dor. From generation to generation. When I launched this publication nearly five years ago, I chose those words because they captured something essential about Jewish life: the responsibility each generation bears to...

Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

Jun 6, 2026, 12:19 AM

The Great Egret has a Request! Shabbat Shalom! 20 Sivan 5786

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B"H June 5th 2026 20 Sivan 5786 "My Dear Children!" The Great Eregt said as he looked down at all of his creations! I love you! I hear you! I will answer all your prayers for good! You matter to me! I will right all that is wrong! I...

Jun 3, 2026, 11:00 AM

… and how Naftali Bennett made me politically homeless

... and probably hundreds of thousands of other voters too.... Having written yesterday about one of the multiple problems that deters me from voting for the parties of Israel's current governing coalition, I write today to complain how Naftali Bennett...

May 29, 2026, 6:33 PM

The gift of Shabbat to one’s spiritual life assumes a wider, political profile

Would I observe Shabbat? That was the first major test of my faith, some four decades ago, soon after I had joined the ranks of the baalei teshuvah, newcomers to an Orthodox lifestyle. Thor Heyerdahl, the famed Norwegian explorer and writer,...

May 26, 2026, 6:52 AM

One Idol Is Enough

The real danger was never many gods, but making one thing absolute Monotheism is often reduced to a math problem. One God versus many gods. Judaism, however, has always argued that the real danger is not polytheism. It is absolutism. Because technically speaking,...

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

May 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

Great TV: ‘Boston Blue’ & Its Shabbat Tradition

Screen shot from Boston Blue where they celebrate shabbat from a hospital room. Photo by and courtesy of JLM.

In a time of chaos and conflict in the world, I am a big fan of shows that take a problem and solve it in an hour. It is probably good for my mental health. Real life rarely offers quick...

May 17, 2026, 8:18 AM

Conspicuously Missing From the Media Was Shabbat 250

Conspicuously absent from the mainstream media this week was any serious coverage of, or celebration surrounding, “Shabbat 250.” For those who may have missed the little attention it received, here is what it was about. “Shabbat 250” is a national...

Andy Blumenthal

May 17, 2026, 8:16 AM

Why I Came Back to Shul

For years, one of the absolute best perks of returning regularly to synagogue has been rediscovering a very specific, distinctly Jewish superpower: our humor. It’s warm, deeply self-aware, and forged through millennia of practicing the art of the collective...

May 17, 2026, 3:24 AM

Buried With Her Tehillim

At my grandmother’s funeral this week, I noticed some movement near the grave. At the moment I did not realize what it was. Only afterward did I find out what had happened. They had buried her together with her...

Cate Rubenstein

May 16, 2026, 4:55 PM

Don’t tell me to pray.

Don’t tell me to pray. Don’t tell me not to pray Don’t tell me when or how to pray. Stay out of my relationship (and if I have one) with Hashem entirely. Don’t tell me what to do, when it comes to private...

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