7+ hour, 29+ min ago   (407+ words) Monday, January 19th | 1 Shevat 5786 Like many Central and Eastern European countries that regained independence after the fall of Communism, Romania was only able to confront its Holocaust-era past half a century after those crimes took place. It has made great strides…...

9+ hour, 37+ min ago   (909+ words) Monday, January 19th | 1 Shevat 5786 Six months ago, I stood on the grounds of Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi. I observed a sign that read in bold, "Bombings In Jewish Community." I was curious about the history, so I leaned in…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (323+ words) Friday, January 16th | 27 Tevet 5786 #EndJewHatred, the international grassroots civil rights movement, hosted a rally outside the office of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York City on Thursday night to express solidarity with Iranians amid the crackdown on…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (226+ words) Thursday, January 15th | 26 Tevet 5786 Senior leaders of the Jewish educational organization Aish met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at his residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday to discuss Jews in the diaspora and their engagement with Israel following the deadly Hamas-led terrorist…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (374+ words) Wednesday, January 14th | 25 Tevet 5786 American Jewish life has long been anchored in a small number of powerful metropolitan centers. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and a handful of others remain indispensable. They house national institutions, sustain Jewish education at scale,…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (671+ words) Wednesday, January 14th | 25 Tevet 5786 "Let's walk," I said. We ended up at the rooftop overlook at the Aish World Center, the Western Wall across from us, ancient and alive. But we weren't talking about history. We were talking about the future....

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1201+ words) Wednesday, January 14th | 25 Tevet 5786 The Jewish population of South Florida is about 650,000. It has the third largest concentration of Jews in the country and the single largest concentration of Jews (13 percent of the total population of South Florida) outside of Israel....

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (322+ words) Monday, January 12th | 23 Tevet 5786 On January 10, 2026, the Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi " the only synagogue in the state capital " was deliberately set ablaze. Torah scrolls were destroyed. Offices and sacred spaces were gutted. Services were suspended indefinitely. This was not…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (358+ words) Monday, January 12th | 23 Tevet 5786 Someone close to me was explaining why he thought I was so dismissive, particularly of religious views that I did not agree with. In his opinion, this reflected the distinction between the rigorous Lithuanian academic yeshiva training,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1087+ words) Friday, January 9th | 20 Tevet 5786 In the summer of 1940, as Europe collapsed into darkness, a Japanese diplomat sat behind a modest desk in the Lithuanian city of Kovno and faced a decision that would echo far beyond anything he could possibly imagine....