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Andy Blumenthal

Aug 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Don’t Wait Until Death to Learn How to Live

Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel about Eddie, an aging amusement-park maintenance worker who dies trying to save a child and then meets five people in heaven. Each encounter helps him understand a...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 26, 2026, 6:45 AM

From Freebies to Control: The Mechanics of the Mamdani Agenda

In the tight-knit Jewish neighborhoods of New York, humor has always been our primary armor against hardship. Growing up, I remember neighbors joking through grit and gritted teeth that they were so poor they "couldn’t afford the o or...

Linda Pardes Friedburg

Jul 23, 2026, 10:22 AM

Tzur Misgabi – Strengthening Jewish Life in Judea

"Behold, Hashem your God has given you the Land. Go up and inherit it...Do not fear and do not be discouraged." (Devarim 1:21) We must be unequivocal about the rights of Jews to live everywhere in the land of Israel...

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....

Eliezer Avraham

Jul 19, 2026, 2:40 PM

When the Gates Tremble: El Nora Alila as a Path Toward Tisha B’Av

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A reflection on return, memory, and the strength that prepares us for Tisha B’Av Sanctifying Memory As the days move closer to Tisha B’Av, we enter a season when Jewish memory becomes a moral discipline. Other civilizations bury their defeats, erase...

Claudia Kreiman

Jul 17, 2026, 2:33 PM

The Question My Mother’s Memory Asks of Me

Thirty-two years ago this week, on July 18, 1994, my mother was murdered in the terrorist bombing of the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina), the central institution of Argentina's Jewish community in Buenos Aires. She worked there as a...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 12, 2026, 5:25 AM

There Is Still Time Today to Make Yesterday Jealous

It was an ordinary ride that delivered an extraordinary idea. Earlier this week, in Washington, D.C., I stepped into an Uber driven by a retired gentleman with a calm demeanor. Soft religious music played in the background. He greeted me...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 14, 2026, 10:08 AM

Be Bold and Settle Our Entire Land of Israel

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government moved forward with one of the most significant Zionist initiatives in decades, allocating over $350 million to authorize and establish 61 new Jewish communities in the ancestral heartland of Judea and Samaria....

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...

Eliezer Avraham

Jun 5, 2026, 7:39 PM

Beha’alotecha and the Journey of a Father’s Heart

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When love is misunderstood, when distance grows, and when hope refuses to die Beha’alotecha: When the Heart Carries More Than It Can Hold In Parashat Beha’alotecha, Moses reaches a breaking point. The people misunderstand him, reject the manna he believed would...

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