The Jewish world was collectively up in arms this week when the Jewish Chronicle (based on a trailer) reported that Sabra, the long-awaited Israeli MCU superhero, was being turned into a Russian character. Accusations of whitewashing and erasure were screamed from virtual rooftops. I noted to a friend that turning an Israeli into a European […]
Donald Trump – past US President and Republican presidential nominee – was shot this past weekend at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in an attempted assassination. We avoid politics on this site because of how divisive it is by nature. Thankfully, reasonable people all around the world have acknowledged that violence is never the […]
This past Sunday, a pogrom occurred in Los Angeles, when an Israeli real estate event scheduled at Adas Torah (a local synagogue in the Orthodox neighborhood of Pico Robertson) had Hamas supporters come to the streets trying to stop it. They were masked in keffiyehs and armed with bear spears. At least one Jewish man […]
Four hostages were miraculously rescued by our brave IDF soldiers this weekend and we got a chance to see the looks of relief and joy of family members and captives returning from hell. Maybe we need to keep visualizing redemption in order to prepare for ours.
Travel makes the world both bigger and smaller. As Orthodox Jews, we love the idea of exposing our children to new people and places, so they get a feel for life outside of their bubble, understand the expansiveness of the planet, how people live differently than they do, and get a sense of the shared […]
For many years during the Passover seder I have struggled with how to handle “the wicked son.” We are told that there are four sons: wise, wicked, simple and one who doesn’t know how to ask. Says the hagaddah: “What does the wicked son say? ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’ To you and […]
