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Jul 30, 2026, 4:05 AM

“Console, Console My People”

This week, the confluence of two things caused me to have a realization, although not a concrete one. This was not a moment that led to me having a big scientific discovery or a massive chiddush on some perek...

Jul 30, 2026, 4:03 AM

A Court Cannot Summon the Messiah: On the Limits of the Sanhedrin’s Authority

A reconstituted Sanhedrin has issued a ruling asking Heaven to reveal the Mashiach and rebuild the Temple. But the classical sources draw a sharp line the court has crossed. When a reconstituted Sanhedrin issues a formal ruling that asks Heaven...

Joshua Z. Rokach

Jul 27, 2026, 7:50 PM

Overlooked in the Haredi Draft Debate

For many Jews, whether Haredim should serve in the IDF and the political firestorm surrounding the conflict between the Supreme Court and the Government have taken center stage in public discourse. Indeed, this past Shabbat, Nachamu, I attended a...

Michael S. Diamond

Jul 27, 2026, 4:18 AM

The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing

I have registered my maps in The Archive of Forgetting and Undoing. The walls to the Holy City have been breached in this month of the Babylonian god who at Summer’s zenith dies, the faithful son, and returns with the rains of Winter and Spring dew, ransom for his goddess sister, Lady of the Date Clusters. Perhaps...

Jul 25, 2026, 5:02 PM

Alas, poor Yorick, alas, poor Jerusalem

Like many Jews, I have used the words “synagogue” and “temple” interchangeably. That all changed a number of years ago when a close friend of mine corrected my usage. He told me, in a light but serious way, that...

Jul 25, 2026, 5:00 PM

Mamdani to Jews: Have A Nice Tisha B’Av, and Drop Dead

Words matter. They can cut like a knife. And they can rally gullible, foolish, addle-brained, TikTok minions to join the already vile radical Islamic creatures, whom without check, were allowed to infect Western cultures from seas to turbulent seas...

Steven C. Wernick

Jul 24, 2026, 7:34 PM

A Mourning Text Became a Morning Prayer

Robert Brym and Rhonda Lenton open their new study with a sentence that should stop every Canadian Jew cold: the golden age of Canadian Jewry ran from the early 1960s to the early 2020s, and it is over. Their Canadian...

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Jul 24, 2026, 6:26 PM

Jewish Earth Alliance’s Virtual Lobby Day Shows the Power of Climate Advocacy

Volunteers from Jewish Earth Alliance speak with Senate staff about key legislation that can help protect the people and places we all love. Photo courtesy of JEA.

I was delighted to join the Jewish Earth Alliance's annual Pre-Tisha B'Av Virtual Lobby Day once again this year. Having participated in several of their lobby days over the years, I continue to be impressed by the organization's ability...

Daphne Lazar Price

Jul 24, 2026, 2:16 PM

Shabbat Nachamu and the Attempted Erasure of Jewish History

This Shabbat, the one that follows Tisha B'Av, Jews around the world will hear one of the most beloved passages in the Hebrew Bible: "Nachamu, nachamu ami," "Comfort, comfort My people," says your God. (Isaiah 40:1). Shabbat Nachamu does not...

Jul 24, 2026, 12:42 PM

From Catastrophe to Holiday

"Visions of Transformation from Catastrophe to Celebration" (Image generated with the assistance of agentic artificial intelligence)

Tisha be-Ab cannot become a festival merely because Jews recovered power. It changes when mourning teaches a sovereign society what to do with that power. Yesterday was Tisha be-Ab. Today is Ereb Shabbath. The fast is over. The shoes are back...

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