When news broke out of the attacks on Israel over the weekend, Jews everywhere were in shock. Included in that were newlyweds Anastasia and Nahum Mittelman, whose wedding was supposed to take place on Sunday evening at sunset, October 8.  The two live in Tel-Aviv and were woken up early Saturday morning by sirens, which […]

Dear Social Justice Warrior, I think you misunderstood your antiracism training. You throw around fancy words like decolonization, and systemic oppression, and resistance, and somehow think that they mean “It’s okay to brutally murder Jews.” Social Justice Warrior, if this is “what decolonization looks like,” does that mean you would be okay if Native Americans […]

It still doesn’t feel real. It feels like I’m walking around in a daze. I kept waking up last night with images flashing in my mind of innocent hostages taken by Hamas terrorists…wondering if it was just a nightmare…realizing it still is one.  Images of women, men and children plastered in my brain that could be […]

I’m not the best faster, which means I’m usually not the best at Yom Kippur prayers. But I did notice two things this Yom Kippur, once while I was praying and the other time while I was not praying. In Avinu Malkeinu, the customary prayer we say over and over again during the High Holidays, […]

While Orthodox Jews, especially Hasidim, are often the subject of negative portrayals in the media, with their shared humanity rarely shown, this is a positive story. Eddy Verloes, a photographer from Belgium took a black and white photograph of young Orthodox Jews joyfully running up and down a hill on what looks like a beach. […]

All eyes are on former Jew in the City All-Star Jacob Lew this morning, who was just appointed as the next US Ambassador to Israel. Under the Obama administration, he served as secretary of the treasury as well as chief of staff. He also served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under […]