8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (298+ words) Interview by Igor Sabino and André Lajst, StandWithUs Brazil Israel stands out as the only nation in the Middle East where the Christian population is growing. Bishop Robert Stearns emphasized that Israel guarantees full religious freedom and freedom of expression…...

18+ hour, 3+ min ago   (226+ words) Can Medieval Wisdom Guide Israel through a Contemporary Challenge? Yet the discussion does not end there. At the conclusion of Laws of Shemita and Yovel 13:12–13, HaRambam praises those who dedicate themselves entirely to God’s service, comparing them to the Tribe…...

17+ hour, 47+ min ago   (635+ words) The Covenant Is the Answer God told Abraham how to handle antisemitism 4,000 years before the philanthropists arrived. And antisemitism comes back anyway. Faster, now. Metabolized by the algorithm. Migrating from the fringe to the feed, from the fever swamp to…...

21+ hour ago   (736+ words) Braden Eric Peters, who performs as Clavicular, landed in Tel Aviv. Within hours, the people who perform the fight against antisemitism were not fighting him. They were fighting each other. I am tired of the spineless populism dressed up in…...

20+ hour, 33+ min ago   (204+ words) Part 1 — Why This, Why Now. “War of Redemption” isn’t a term with deep pedigree in Israeli public life; it’s theological language applied to an ongoing campaign and repeated as if it were the campaign’s name. That move lifts the conflict…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (656+ words) In just two days, we will sit on the floor, dim the lights, and enter the quiet grief of Tisha B’Av. We will recite Kinot (lamentations) and mourn the loss of the Temple in Jerusalem. But if we are honest…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (508+ words) The Jewish world is fighting antizionism in a room the movement never enters. A defector’s map of outside, and the case that it’s gentile’s work, not a Jewish burden. This past week the Jewish world went to war with antizionism…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (398+ words) Ever since the massacre of October 7, I have found myself repeating the same mantra everywhere I go: let’s bring more Jewish children into the world. That is the best Jewish response to this tragedy. We should eliminate terrorists. We should…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (627+ words) Founded in 1843, Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford, Connecticut, is one of the state’s oldest Jewish congregations and a vibrant Reform community serving about 700 families. For more than 180 years, it has provided a welcoming home for Jewish life, worship, learning,…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (727+ words) Crying on the plane back to New York from Israel. Again. Not since the summer of 1992, when I was a teenager on ZOA’s Masada Leadership Training Program (yes, I was on the nerd trip), have I spent five weeks in…...