We’re living through unprecedented times in America. In my lifetime, I hoped I would never see the vitriol and antisemitic that my Jewish ancestors went through. I felt confident that “never again” really meant never again. Jews would never go through the persecution of the past. The truth and goodness of the Jewish people I […]
“We refute our Jewishness,” said Jonathan Glazer in the beginning of his controversial Oscar award winning speech. But does he, or for that matter, we, even really know what “our Jewishness” is about? Jewish customs seem like they can range from being deep and meaningful like reading the hagadah to startlingly unintelligible like getting drunk […]
When Hamas terrorists came to maim, torture, rape and murder thousands of Israelis on October 7, a 22-year-old woman named Neta Portal and her boyfriend, Santiago, living in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, found themselves in a life and death situation. Neta turned to the one person she knew could save her — her estranged father – […]
Jews are outnumbered. At 15 million small, in terms of our physical presence and safety, we are outnumbered. Attacks on Jews around the world have dramatically increased since October 7. We are outnumbered on social media, especially since our enemy seems to have invested a lot of money in bots that spew hateful and distorted […]
The Jewish people recently witnessed the Holocaust trauma of our nightmares playing out in real time updates, and instead of the world seeing evil as it is, unequivocally, instead too many people explained that “the complicated history needs context.” Instead academics in Harvard, Penn, Columbia, and Cornell, are justifying the evil, while their students celebrate […]
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 […]
