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Sep 18, 2026, 8:56 PM

A Mensch with Flour on His Hands

Strudel, Amber, and Pikuach Nefesh Odesa native Uriel Shtern preserves recipes and Jewish memory, transforms Ukrainian amber into Judaica, and helps women reach a doctor in places where war has made an ordinary medical exam nearly inaccessible. At first glance,...

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

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 7, 2026, 4:35 AM

The Haftara for the first day of Rosh HaShana (Shmuel I:1:1-2:10) tells the story of Chana and how she yearned for a child. In Shmuel I:1:9-11 we read: Chana stood up after eating in Shilo and after drinking; Eli the...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Sep 3, 2026, 11:40 PM

The More Things Change…

Doubling up was popular when I was a kid. We had, for example, Doublemint and Double Bubble gums, baseball doubleheaders, and movie double features. The latter two evoke fond memories of exciting days at the stadium and entertaining afternoons...

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 3, 2026, 6:42 PM

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

Aug 31, 2026, 7:13 PM

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

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The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

Aug 25, 2026, 12:05 PM

The Old City Belonged to Everyone Except Me

I used to despise the Old City of Jerusalem. It felt intimidating, heavy, tense. Everyone seemed to belong to some tribe I did not belong to, dressed for a ritual I could not relate to, heading somewhere with absolute purpose. There...

Jul 28, 2026, 12:17 AM

Maidens in a Tu B’Av tizz

Girls dancing on Tu B'Av (ארכיון ומוזיאון החאן חדרה (ע.ר), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons)

A leaked memo threatens to stop all Tu B'Av festivities in Israeli vineyards and green spaces across the country. Knesset members of the subcommittee appointed by the Ministry of Religious Services to regulate public activities on Tu B'Av are...

Jul 26, 2026, 5:19 PM

So that’s that

I thought the 11 months of saying Kaddish were teaching me how to mourn; really, they taught me how to live without my mother

Allen S. Maller

Jul 26, 2026, 6:22 AM

Why Languages and Prophetic Religions Win

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. Before the onset of plant and animal domestication, the number of languages was smaller than it is today (4500 to 6000 compared...

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