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Apr 28, 2026, 10:59 AM

Shoe is Not So Great on the Other foot, Huh?

Imagine this. You’re at the cool kids party or what is otherwise known as the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. All your friends are there rubbing shoulders with each other and cozying up to the famous television and Hollywood types you...

Aryeh Schonbrun

Feb 27, 2026, 12:08 PM

‘As I Remembered Zion’: On Ethnic Zionism

For many of us American Jews, Israel holds a special place in our hearts. We feel an intrinsic, natural and deep connection to the land, the people, and the state. We are taught from a young age to love...

Feb 10, 2026, 12:31 AM

The Super Bowl Halftime Show: America’s Biggest Stage for Culture… and Politics

Every year, the Super Bowl halftime show delivers the same promise: 15 minutes of spectacle, celebrity, and mass entertainment on the largest televised stage in the world. But the halftime show has become more than a musical intermission. It is...

Feb 6, 2026, 5:41 PM

Israel-is-Incredible #2

A Canadian perspective. To my Jewish friends: Do we spend too much time (obsessively?) exposed to the hatred of Jews and Israel from algorithms or personal media consumption choices? We simply don’t get enough of the good stuff about Israel....

Stephen M. Flatow

Feb 5, 2026, 1:31 PM

The Pitt: A Jewish doctor on TV — and the values he carries into the ER

On the HBO drama, Jewish identity is neither hidden nor politicized — it appears in the quiet. discipline of saving lives and honoring human dignity

Sheldon Kirshner

Feb 2, 2026, 8:05 AM

Black and Jewish America

African and Jewish Americans have been bound together in a deeply intertwined relationship despite their historical, religious and cultural differences and divergent priorities. Since the formation of the American republic more than two centuries ago, they have been mocked and...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jan 26, 2026, 9:15 PM

Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire

Elie Wiesel, the late Jewish novelist and human rights activist, was deeply affected by the Holocaust. He was personally traumatized by it and drew on its horrors as a writer. Oren Rudavsky's documentary, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, which is...

Jan 2, 2026, 4:25 AM

What Dr. Robby’s Jewish star on ‘The Pitt’ teaches me

Noah Wyle as Dr. Michael Robinavich, aka Dr. Robby, in 'The Pitt.' (Screenshot)

With 'the Surge' of Jews who doubled down on Jewish life after October 7th, I saw why opting out of Judaism doesn't quite work (Vayechi)

Dec 26, 2025, 6:55 PM

Meathead and me

Rob Reiner taught me that in Jewish life, arguing isn’t a rejection of family or tradition, but a way of staying connected

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 17, 2025, 2:10 PM

Eurovision chutzpah

The crucial difference for Jews between 1930 and 2025 is that now, we have our own State that will welcome and defend us. Like from October 8, 2023, it would. Yet, there’s something perverse going on in Europe. After much...

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