October 28, 2024
At the beginning, I thought maybe to tell my friends to leave, but at that point, it was already too late. They’re shooting and trying to kidnap us or kill […]
October 24, 2024
To most of the world, the date is the October 7. To me it will always be Simchat Torah. The memory of the juxtaposition of the joyful singing and dancing […]
October 19, 2024
Daniel Birnbaum, former CEO of SodaStream and High Holiday Hazzan at Adath Israel synagogue for much of the late 1990s and early aughts, is offering $100,000 in cash or bitcoin […]
October 17, 2024
I was a high schooler in Jerusalem when the father of mass terrorism against my people, Yassar Arafat, died. His death brought me messy emotions: Satisfaction that this agent of […]
October 7, 2024
A visitor (of which there are very few these days) might comment on how relatively normal life looks in Israel, even after a year of war. The beaches are full […]
September 25, 2024
After the announcement of the murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas over Labor Day weekend, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, protests and vigils were held around the world. Israel […]
August 8, 2024
ָּברּוְך ַא ָּתה ה‘ ֱאֹל ֵהינּו ֶמ ֶלְך ָהעֹו ָלם ַהּגֹו ֵמל ְל ַחּיָ ִבים טֹובֹות ֶׁש ְּג ָמ ַלנִי ָּכל טֹוב. Baruch ata Hashem, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, ha-gomel l’chayavim […]
June 11, 2024
When my daughter’s birth certificate still hadn’t arrived a month later, I knew I had to bite the bullet and call the Ministry. After 57 minutes on hold, I was […]
May 16, 2024
Seventy-six years ago, in the Tel Aviv Museum, today known as Independence Hall, the founders of the modern state of Israel held a ceremony. For the first time in 2,000 […]
May 10, 2024
A Progressive Queer Jew’s Thoughts on Israel/Palestine, Antisemitism, and Zionism Over the last six months, friends and peers have asked unique questions because of my identity and position as a […]