Ten Plagues, Three Acronyms, Seven Opinions
The story behind everyone's favorite Pesach mnemonic.
Total Eclipse of the Brakha
Do we make a blessing on a solar eclipse? Well, that depends if eclipses are evil or not.
At the Anti-Israel Carnival
Students at Rutgers University protest Israel like they're attending a carnival. A professor explores the troubling scenes she's witnessed—and rereads Mikhail Bakhtin.
Israel’s TikTok Problem
Why has TikTok become a hotbed of anti-Israel and antisemitic content, and what does it tell us about brewing global conflicts.
Harvard, SNCC, and an Antisemitic Cartoon
How did Harvard students end up using a decades old antisemitic cartoon in their anti-Israel activism?
Wartime Diary
Since October, in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are on the move in the rain, mud, and fire. They go from one space that is not home to another space that is not home; none of them safe. Where will they shelter? To what can they return?
Washington’s Saving Shield
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, a synagogue in New York gathered to praise George Washington in extraordinarily biblical language.
Atah Manhig: A Life in Reform Judaism
Lance Sussman's book of sermons are a window into Reform Judaism and a beacon of American optimism.
Tools of Hope: Finding Guidance from Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef
The Jewish muscle-memory that shapes our collective intuition, guides our response to calamity, and gives us hope that we will overcome this, too.
Ruby Sees Red
"I’m still trying to wake up from this nightmare. I walk in the streets. I see parents with babies. I can’t look. I walk in Riverside Park, I see an older man hugging his granddaughter, and I almost start crying. We have been forced back into Jewish history, into the bloody raw part of Jewish history."