5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (528+ words) Purim Through My Eyes: Why This Jewish Story Matters to Me as a Muslim I was not born Jewish. I was born Muslim, in Pakistan, into a political family that understood persecution firsthand. My father spent 27 years in prison for…...

22+ hour, 23+ min ago  (505+ words) In Search of Morality. Welcome to the world of what can only be termed anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and Antisemitic derangement. There is nothing moral about hating Israel. There is nothing moral about calling Israel or Zionists "Demonic" or "Satanic." There is…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (562+ words) A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, communities that should have cared most about this topic. In the past two years, thousands of second…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (183+ words) His words carried that unmistakable quality of truth, the kind that does not argue for itself. It simply stands. I was deeply moved. And even though it was getting close to the time when the afternoon gives way to evening,…...

4+ day, 14+ min ago  (1050+ words) Am Yisrael Chai. The Jewish people live. For much of Jewish history, those words have carried a defiant undertone. They tried to destroy us, and we are still here. Survival has been our baseline achievement. To endure exile, persecution, expulsion,…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (516+ words) The Torah has a tradition of inner spiritual life which is a devotional path " a derech avodah. While the past decade has seen an uptick of interest in meditation apps and Eastern practices, it is helpful to know what we…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (959+ words) Bret Stephens'recent State of World Jewry addressgenerated a great deal of discussion. His core provocation: the fight against antisemitism, however well-meaning, is largely a wasted effort " antisemitism is a neurosis, not an information deficit, and you cant educate people out…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (669+ words) Stoicism has undeniable appeal. It teaches discipline of the mind, acceptance of what cannot be controlled, and emotional restraint in the face of hardship. "Only my thoughts are within my power," the Stoics remind us. In moments of chaos or…...

5+ day, 38+ min ago  (275+ words) A few weeks ago, I joined a solidarity meeting at a nearby Israeli Palestinian middle school, whose eighth graders, on a school hike in a national park, had been attacked with pepper spray by teenage hikers from a yeshiva in…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (290+ words) Who are we becoming and why? In this period of extraordinary disruption, where many of our beliefs, values and ideals are being challenged, we are finding that our very identities as Jews are being transformed. For some of us, we…...