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Eliezer Avraham

Jul 23, 2026, 9:30 AM

The Rebuilding Chronicles

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A Journey Through Loneliness, Brokenness, Destruction and Renewal A lighthouse for the weary soul, a companion for Tisha B’Av and the dawn that follows Every soul that rebuilds walks through four pillars: Loneliness, Brokenness, Destruction and Renewal. These are not obstacles....

Micah Ben David Naziri

Jul 22, 2026, 9:20 PM

No, Karl Marx was not ‘Jewish’

In the 2001 film The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as Daniel “Danny” Balint, a Jewish-born neo-Nazi, the protagonist asks whether antisemites hate Jews for entering spaces where they supposedly do not belong or for remaining separate; for hoarding money...

Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierez

Jul 16, 2026, 5:10 AM

Jewish Identity and Ethnicity

Jewish identity is multifaceted. In the story of the prophet Jonah, for example, he was asked by the frightened crew of the ship bound for Tarshish (possibly Spain) who he was. He responded that he was a Hebrew as...

Jul 15, 2026, 11:49 AM

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

Gadi Eisenkot, currently emerging as the leading challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the upcoming election, 2023. Elad Malka / Wikimedia Commons.

There is an old saying, attributed to Morocco’s King Hassan II, that captures something no diplomatic communiqué ever could: “When a Jew leaves Morocco, we lose a citizen, but we gain an ambassador.” It is a beautiful sentiment, generous...

Jacqueline Snidman-Stren

Jun 27, 2026, 6:11 PM

The Many Faces of Jewish Identity

The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group with shared origins in the Land of Israel, but Jewish history has unfolded across many different regions over thousands of years. Because of exile, migration, and diaspora, Jewish communities developed distinct ethnic...

Michael Feldstein

Jun 21, 2026, 6:21 PM

What’s in a Name?

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Have you ever wondered how we decided on our deeply ingrained customs for naming children? If you grew up in an Ashkenazi household, you probably take it for granted that you name a baby after a beloved relative who has...

Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierez

Jun 21, 2026, 5:27 PM

Converso Identity and the American Experience

Bima in the Amsterdam Esnoga 1695 by Romeyn de Hooghe

Not a day goes by that I do not remember the wisdom of Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, z"l. Years ago, he taught a class titled “What is Judaism?" at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago....

Jun 17, 2026, 5:53 AM

The Yidkins Diet

Pesach may be long over, but that old adage, "Matzah, 18 minutes on the lips, a lifetime on the hips," is still just as true. With Summer almost upon us, it can only mean one thing: We all need...

May 31, 2026, 2:37 PM

Searching for the Shalshelet

Where I'm from, we call a shalshelet a ta'am and refuse to forget that it is written with an ayin rather than an aleph.

Finals are officially over, which means I have the headspace to think about something other than chemistry. I am delighted. This is what I’m thinking about: the boy across the table who is really more of a man, but he’s...

May 27, 2026, 4:20 AM

Why the Chareidi & Dati Leumi Divide Goes Deeper Than Strictness

We are looking inside a world that outsiders flatten (David Katash, FrockInStock.com).

It is not a frumkeit ranking, but a question of religious instinct, cultural memory, and which world feels like home. Recently, I saw an online discussion on Imamother — a popular online forum for frum women — about whether there...

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