Last night, Jewish director Jonathan Glazer won an Oscar for The Zone of Interest, his harrowing film about the commandant of Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The film was noteworthy because it didn’t show the horrors of the camp: we mostly just hear gunshots, screams, and other sounds in the background as the family goes about […]

When was the last time you thought about a rare disease? If you’re lucky, it’s never. If you’ve been impacted in some way — whether you have one or someone close to you does — you know how debilitating and painful it can be. That’s what Yehuda Gelman is trying to change — and already has in […]

Faith in God, like loving one’s spouse – is not a static thing. It ebbs. It flows. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. And it requires work and commitment to make it last. God’s presence in the world is hidden – it’s meant to be hidden, in part, so that we have free will. As […]

There are certain events that happen that give us a renewed source of hope. When the two hostages Fernando Simon Marman and Louis Har were rescued earlier this month, the whole world felt lighter for a second. Our hostages are still alive. There is still the chance we can get them back safely. Our prayers […]

Dear Jew in the City, Why aren’t Jewish people, who are supposed to be “a light to the nations,” obligated to treat non-Jews the same as they treat fellow Jews?  Sincerely, Eileen Dear Eileen, Thanks for your question. (Actually, this question was submitted in the comment section of a different article. I thought it was […]

Last year, at a car rental company, a Muslim man from Iraq who was bringing us our car, noticed my younger son, who looks the most like me of all of our children, replete with olive skin. It was the end of January, and even so, both my son and I looked brown. The Iraqi […]