4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (535+ words) When we here in Israel soon gather for the Tishrei holidays and examine the past Hebrew calendar year’s deeds, including interpersonal relationships, we’ll most likely focus on our familiar – Jewish – environs. There are good reasons why we should also do…...

1+ week, 8+ min ago   (496+ words) Conflating Judaism or Jewish identity with the official policies or the actions of The Haganah, The Palmach, The Irgun (Etzel), Lehi (The Stern Gang), The State of Israel, the IDF, Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Amichai Eliyahu, or aggressive Israeli…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (282+ words) The countdown timers to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are ticking… Question for your table: What if you knew that tonight would be your very last Shabbat? Would knowing that make any impact on what you do tonight and tomorrow?...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1213+ words) Howard Rosen worked in the fields of international and labor economics for more than 4 decades. He helped establish the Peterson Institute for International Economics and held several positions there. He also served as the Executive Director of the US Competitiveness…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (557+ words) This is the third essay in my series on contemporary antisemitism. This essay traces one of the historical roots of contemporary antisemitism. When societies struggle over authority, Jews are repeatedly imagined as the hidden possessors of that authority. There was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (632+ words) Steven Greenberg is an award-winning novelist (see https://www.stevengreenbergbooks.com), a professional writer (see http://sdg.co.il), and a full-time cook, cleaner, chauffeur and single dad for three young adults (see his dishpan hands). Born in Texas, Steven grew up in Indiana and emigrated…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1098+ words) Inclusion is not a trend. Inclusion is a commandment — and a condition for Jewish survival. Our sacred texts demand that we honor individuals, seek to understand before being understood, make conversations and religious practice accessible to all, and create communities…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1582+ words) We tend to remember Jewish history as a series of encounters between Jews and outsiders: Jews and Greeks, Jews and Romans, Jews and Christians, Jews and the modern nation-states of Europe. But some of the most consequential conflicts in Jewish…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (696+ words) A lone protester outside my embassy raised an obvious question: How would replacing the Middle East’s only free country with yet another authoritarian Arab state advance the cause of freedom? As I drove back to the embassy today, one man…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1415+ words) Lithuania’s problem is no longer merely what its historians conclude. It is what the state does to evidence that produces the wrong conclusion. There are many ways for a state to falsify history. The crudest is to destroy the evidence....