It’s not a new story, but sadly, it’s one that has to continue to be told. Many Hasidic Jewish men won’t sit next to a female passenger on the airplane. While not Jewish law, it’s often a sensitivity they have to be sitting so close to someone (and let’s get real, those seats are small) […]
Happy (almost) New Year! While many of us celebrate the new year at Rosh Hashanah time, the changing of the calendar from one year to the next also holds some undeniable weight. It’s another fresh start, another opportunity for change and growth and an additional moment to reflect on the past. We’re reflecting on […]
The Jewish people have a history of feeling alone. During the Holocaust, there was no one that spoke out in support of us, that helped us, that came to our rescue until six million of us were killed. Now, after the horrific October 7 attack against so many of our brothers and sisters in Israel, […]
The news coverage of events in Israel and Gaza since October 7 have been, on the whole, troubling. The most obvious and well-covered example was the rush to (falsely) blame Israel for a hospital bombing that turned out not to have come from Israel, and not to have hit the hospital at all. But there […]
These days, it’s easy to completely melt into a puddle of doom and fear when scrolling through the news or the ignorant, malignant Instagram comments of so many. This morning, it was reported that Bolivia cut ties with Israel and Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors. There are death threats to Jews on college campuses, […]
The horrific events done at the hands of Hamas on October 7th have shaken our people to the core. We haven’t felt such a rise in antisemitism since the Nazi Holocaust in Europe. We are deeply wounded. Over 1,400 people in Israel were murdered, often in the most barbaric ways imaginable. Thousands more were injured […]
