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Sep 21, 2026, 6:17 PM

It’s 12:07 a.m. I’m in bed, comfortable beneath white cotton sheets and blankets. The fan spins at high speed, filling the room with a steady hum. I hold my iPhone in my palm, and its glow creates a tiny pocket...

Sep 18, 2026, 12:14 AM

She stared at the poster pinned to her bedroom wall—the powder-blue wall directly across from her bed. The poster had hung there for years. Its colors had faded, as had her love of rap and hip-hop. But she was still...

Lee Shira Wilson

Sep 16, 2026, 2:31 PM

Making the women of our story part of us: Ushpizot

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For years, I thought about how the classic symbolic biblical male guests we invite into our sukkahs should include women. This year, I'm making it happen

Sep 15, 2026, 12:09 AM

A Special Jury Prize – And the Israeli Public Response Enables Mine

Warnings by an Anthropic researcher that AI could kill us all took the back seat in the news once NAZA was awarded a special jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival this past weekend. With 24 anonymous interviews of...

Sep 10, 2026, 9:39 PM

The Concert That Wasn’t Just a Concert

Last Friday night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, 80,000 people came to see Ed Sheeran. What they encountered first was Macklemore, wearing a keffiyeh, performing his protest song "Hind's Hall" while footage from Gaza rolled across the stadium...

Sep 8, 2026, 4:06 AM

Cabaret’s urgent warning for today’s Israel

Lihi Toledano as Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret' (credit: The Cameri Theatre)

I've just got back from the Cameri Theatre's production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. I can still feel the tear-tracks on my face, and the prickle of fear up my spine. And I didn't cry, and was afraid, for...

Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 AM

In The Beginning

Chapter 1 In the beginning, G-d created Artificial Intelligence. And it was good. But some men said, “No. It is bad. These large, electric chips of gold and silver are tools of the Devil. They turn brains into mush. They will destroy...

Sep 4, 2026, 3:29 PM

The Fiddler Still Plays, But This Time We Have a Home

My husband Ezry and I at Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney Australia, 2026. (courtesy)

Last night, I went to see Fiddler on the Roof in Sydney. It was fantastic, brilliantly done, and the fiddler was particularly special, my friend and musician Ben Adler, who did a superb job! Throughout the show, there were so many...

Aug 31, 2026, 3:32 AM

It’s Later Than You Think

AI generated image for playground with snow

At the funeral, the only fully living person in the room is dead. His photograph looks down upon government officials who are breathing, drinking and arguing, but who have surrendered so completely to habit and hierarchy that they appear...

Aug 20, 2026, 11:59 PM

From the Cave to Performance and Ritual Act

From the Cave to Performance: Art as a Living Ritual Act This moment of dissolution resonates in a striking way with twentieth-century art: from the cave to the stage and back to the body. The boundary between exterior and interior,...

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