Living A Double Life
BY GALIT ALSAYGH The Tanakh has a stance on Jews in golah, exile. To assimilate or to isolate? To practice or to neglect? To be active or to be… Read More
Zionism: An Urgent Call We Cannot Ignore
BY KEDMA ROSENZWEIG In the early twentieth century, former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis proclaimed, “To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better… Read More
Remaining an Or L’Goyim in a Post-October 7 World
BY GILA GRAUER October 7 was a day that will never be forgotten, not by Israelis nor by Jews all over the world, who all united to mourn the… Read More
Shining Our Light Unto the Nations Through Jewish Teachings
BY ADIN LINDEN Jewish history is rife with enemies, from the Egyptians to the descendants of Amalek, a lineage that is seen as the greatest enemy of the Jews… Read More
Between Separating Ourselves and Seeing Ourselves in Others
BY YAEL BURGESS EISENBERG When a gentile came before Hillel and said he would convert to Judaism if Hillel could teach him the entire Torah while standing on one… Read More
Our God-Given Light: Its Meaning and Basis in Jewish Tradition
BY RAANAN VANDERWALDE There is a Jewish belief that it is our role to shine a light unto the nations. Many of us are familiar with this idea and… Read More
The Dangerous Narrative of the Jewish “Debt to Society”
BY OCEAN TIMMINS I believe the world has a deep antipathy towards the Jewish people, implicitly baked in over thousands of years of hatred taking various forms. There is a… Read More
The Purpose Embedded in Every Nation
BY LIR YISSAR The struggle to understand how God could choose just one nation, and give such purpose and responsibility to one nation, has been a persistent question for… Read More
Jewish Resilience: Taught By Our Tradition and Tested By Our History
BY ADIN LINDEN The over three thousand years of Jewish history has often been uneasy and tumultuous. Crisis has never been too far from the Jewish people. At times,… Read More
Jewish Resilience in Times of Persecution and Prosperity, From Our Forefathers to the Present
BY JUDAH MARCUS Resilience is a virtue that has been associated with Judaism for countless generations. Throughout Tanakh, there are a great number of stories about our ancestors demonstrating… Read More