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Oct 5, 2026, 6:57 PM

Inner Lights Throughout a Year: Art & Life

Inna Rogatchi (C). Circle of Hope.

Artistic re-examination of an annual Jewish Holidays New Art Collection Part I of 3 With a new Jewish year started recently, and the new Torah annual circle taking off, it is an appropriate time for presenting the new art collection re-examining an...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:55 AM

In Harmony with Creation: How Jewish Physicists Unlocked Bereshit’s Timeline

NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

The Jewish Physicists Behind the Big Bang and the Cosmic Clock of Genesis In his 1978 Nobel Banquet speech, Jewish-American astrophysicist Arno Penzias remarked: “Curiosity is a precious gift which comes so naturally to us that we sometimes fail to...

Adam O. Goldstein

Oct 2, 2026, 10:54 PM

A Plumber, a Dentist, 67 Minutes, and the Miracle of Survival

Tell your children

There is an old joke that if you put two Jews in a room, you get three opinions. Apparently, if you put a plane full of people headed to Israel in an emergency, you discover a plumber who can...

Sarah Segal-Katz

Oct 2, 2026, 7:02 AM

Carrying What Is Broken Into Simchat Torah

Graffiti on Emek Refaim Street, Jerusalem (November 2023)

This year, in Israel, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah fall on Shabbat for the first time since October 7, 2023. For many of us, this convergence brings back the devastation of that day and the ways our lives have...

Oct 2, 2026, 12:22 AM

The Bible: Human and Animal Souls are Equal

As the Torah annual reading cycle resumes on Simhat Torah with Genesis 1, the animal world begins to emerge with God creating “every living creature” – or “nefesh ha-khayah” as in the Hebrew, namely, ‘ensouled' animal (Gen 1:21). On...

Oct 1, 2026, 2:25 PM

After death, creation: Simchat Torah in the shadow of October 7

We finish the Torah with mourning and immediately go back to the beginning, refusing to let destruction have the final word

Karen Miller Jackson

Oct 1, 2026, 3:03 AM

Simchat Torah: An Unfinished Story

Simchat Torah will never be the same. Three years after October 7, this day will always carry a sense of before and after. A day once associated with joy, dancing, and women’s hakafot is now also a time to...

Menachem Creditor

Sep 30, 2026, 12:10 AM

What Kind of People Do We Intend to Be?

In a season when Israel’s public life will understandably command our attention, it is tempting to make politics the whole of our conversation. Elections matter. Leaders matter. The decisions made by governments can protect lives, wound lives, shape the...

Sep 29, 2026, 1:48 AM

You Can’t Teach a Child to Be a Mensch

When I begin studying a Torah portion with a B’nei Mitzvah student, I usually tell them that we probably aren't going to find “the” answer. We start with curiosity. What catches your attention? What seems strange? What doesn't make...

Sep 25, 2026, 5:11 PM

Kanaani Cats Nominated for Brooklyn Certificate of Proclamation

Ahead of American National Cat Day, the Jerusalem-born breed’s Brooklyn revival reaches another milestone after its historic debut in Finland and international record recognition. Something remarkable has happened to the Kanaani in a very short time. When I began working to...

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