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Mar 25, 2026, 7:19 PM

Tending the Eternal Flame: Parshat Tzav

THE CONSTANT FIRE: BEYOND RITUAL TO RESPONSIBILITY We expect to see in any synagogue an ark, a place for the Torah reader (the bimah), and a ner tamid, the eternal light. Often, additional symbols—such as the Ten Commandments, the twelve...

Dec 1, 2025, 12:12 AM

From the Chickasaw Nation to Jerusalem

Tashka Chikasha (Chickasaw Warrior) sculpture by Enoch Kelly Haney. Photo taken by the author at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

A Chickasaw perspective on Native American Heritage Month, Thanksgiving, and witnessing Jewish indigeneity firsthand. In the United States, November is Native American Heritage Month. It’s when schools, institutions, and media briefly pause to acknowledge the first peoples of the land....

Grant Arthur Gochin

Nov 30, 2025, 11:02 PM

A Thanksgiving Farce

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The mask slipped completely just days ago. Campus screamers who spent the last two years shrieking that Israel is a “genocidal, settler-colonial, apartheid entity” flew home for Thanksgiving to suburbs built on land actually stolen through conquest, ethnic cleansing,...

Andy Blumenthal

Nov 30, 2025, 3:51 AM

Rachel’s Cry: Empathy’s Thanksgiving Lesson

Thanksgiving—a holiday Jews in the diaspora have joyfully embraced—embodies profound gratitude for life's abundant blessings, G-d's unwavering role as our Creator and Sustainer, and the irreplaceable love from family, friends, and community. This spirit mirrors Judaism's sacred command to...

Richard Diamond

Nov 30, 2025, 3:50 AM

We Were There From the Beginning: Jews and the American Revolution

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Before the Lower East Side, Jewish colonists were helping invent the United States - testing whether a distinct minority could be fully at home in a revolutionary republic. When American Jews tell our story, we usually start with the steamship,...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Nov 29, 2025, 9:17 AM

This Thanksgiving, American Jews Are Done Staying Quiet

This Thanksgiving does not feel like the ones we grew up with, and there is no pretending otherwise. For American Jews, this holiday — long cherished as a celebration of safety, gratitude, and belonging — arrives during one of...

Stephen M. Flatow

Nov 28, 2025, 9:27 AM

Thanksgiving in Jerusalem and the future of Jewish identity

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High school kids and their parents are touring gap-year programs to choose where the teens will invest themselves next year

Nov 27, 2025, 9:55 PM

This Thanksgiving, Gratitude Meets Uncertainty

Today is Thanksgiving — a day of gratitude, reflection, and acknowledgement of the blessings in our lives. I am deeply grateful for my family, my home, and the countless gifts that fill my daily life with meaning. But this...

Nov 27, 2025, 9:16 PM

Grief and Gratitude Woven Together

On the wisdom of Israel’s calendar — and how it taught me to move between sorrow and gratitude without losing myself. The Hebrew calendar reveals a harsh truth about life, survival, and sovereignty: there is no clear separation between pain...

Nov 27, 2025, 3:10 PM

Do you complain or give thanks?

A quick copy store in my old neighborhood in America* offered printed pages that customers were welcome to take, free of charge. Some of the sayings on those pages were amusing, others thought-provoking. My Dad had one hanging in...

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