My friend has been crying endless tears for Israel. She is a proud American Reform Jew who has been overcome with grief since October 7. She’s a redhead, who’s been especially hit hard by the tragic news of the Bibas family murders in Hamas captivity. I told her she can’t only have darkness enter her […]
My neighborhood has been covered in orange balloons since news broke last week that the orange-haired Bibas brothers, Ariel and Kfir, were brutally murdered by Hamas. Israeli forensic teams discovered that a month after the 9 month old and four year old were taken hostage (on October 7) the boys were strangled to death, their […]
As the world continues to turn against Jews, with unprecedented hatred and gaslighting in our lifetimes, one of the most absurd lies that antisemites tell about Jews is that we are invaders or colonizers of our ancestral homeland. It is a land that is full of our artifacts, was treaded on by our ancestors, our […]
Thoughts of Eli Sharabi, Or Levy, and Ohad Ben Ami have interrupted my sleep for days. They are the three emaciated hostages who were released from Hamas’s dungeons last week, after sixteen months of being trapped in the bowels of hell. Eli Sharabi, being freed only to learn that his wife, two daughters, and brother […]
Dear Jew in the City, I recently watched a video about “tznius sexy” and was wondering your thoughts. I was wondering what the connection is between looking good (beautiful) and dressing modestly? Can you dress beautifully, modernly, and womanly (not hiding the fact you are a woman) and be modest at the same time? Where […]
“I chose the path of faith, and in the path of faith I returned.” Last week, hostage Agam Berger’s mother said she didn’t want to violate the Sabbath to collect her daughter. In a situation of grave danger there is room in Jewish law for leniency on Sabbath observance. But after Agam’s mother made this […]
