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Dina-Perla Portnaar

Aug 30, 2026, 4:19 AM

Accept that another voice can exist beside our own

For those who have missed it: I exchanged the Netherlands for Cyprus permanently. Truly, the best decision of my life. I’m full of life again. But the start here was insanely difficult for many reasons. After a difficult period, I...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 22, 2026, 11:19 AM

‘They Will Not Silence Me’: The Voice of Marzieh Hamidi That Crosses Borders

On the night of August 17, the Arthur Rubinstein Theater at Hebraica São Paulo hosted Iranian-Afghan journalist and activist Marzieh Hamidi for the event “They Will Not Silence Me: A Voice That Crosses Borders”, organized by the club in...

Aug 20, 2026, 6:31 AM

The Moral Test of Power: From the Captive Woman to Amalek

I am going to New York this week for a family simcha—the last of my immediate family’s bar mitzvot. On Monday, we celebrated the first wedding of the next generation of our family, and my sister was sorely missed....

Jul 29, 2026, 7:34 AM

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn’t the finish line.

Speaking up was the turn. It wasn't the finish line. I used to think that once the words were out — once I'd finally said what happened, once other women stood up behind me — the hardest part was over. I...

Jul 10, 2026, 1:40 PM

Sexist journalism makes for a sexist reality

By treating male perspectives as the default, the media turns women's absence from public life into something ordinary – and helps entrench inequality

Jul 10, 2026, 10:22 AM

Power and Place in Parashat Matot-Masei

As we come to the end of the book of Bamidbar (Numbers), we are left holding multiple, often conflicting strands: We are left with both victories in war and reminders of just how conditional progress can be—especially for women. At...

Natasha H. Pein

Jul 5, 2026, 11:35 AM

250 Years of Freedom: Don’t Take It for Granted

250 Years of American Freedom

This Fourth of July is unlike any other. America is celebrating 250 years of freedom. It is 250 years since a bold nation declared that liberty was worth fighting for and that people were born with rights no government could...

Jul 2, 2026, 8:52 PM

Echoes of Pinchas: When Violence Claims Divine Approval

A few years ago, Ami Eshed, the police chief of Tel Aviv, resigned from his position, saying he was forced out for political reasons because he refused to use violence against protestors. He said: “I could have easily used disproportionate...

Jun 11, 2026, 1:18 PM

The Sultan’s Algorithm

Turkey and Transnational Illiberalism. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Turkey, Transnational Illiberalism, and the Poverty of Our Political Vocabulary There is a particular kind of danger that arrives not as an army but as a narrative, one that does not breach a border so much as dissolve the very...

Jun 10, 2026, 7:26 AM

The Victims Nobody Wants to See

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

The Selective Moral Compass: Why Global Tragedies Are Ignored Until They Can Be Blamed on Jews It is a mind blowing reality of modern journalism that the most severe humanitarian crises in the world are routinely dismissed as irrelevant. Day...

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