1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (603+ words) A month later, on the country’s largest podcast, he went further. Israel was losing the American public. To those in the Israeli government manipulating U.S. opinion to prolong an aimless war, his message was blunt: “go to hell.” Israel, he…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (902+ words) When I was five years old, our house caught fire. It was still dark outside—around four or five o’clock on a Sunday morning. My mother woke us from our beds, grabbed my sisters and me, and ran outside as…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (366+ words) You keep saying, over and over, that you are not an antisemite. And you’re right, you’re not an antisemite. You’re the antisemite. Many years ago, I met with the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He told me he hates…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (338+ words) This Independence Day I’m not going to fly the flag. I’m not going to gush over Israel as a modern-day miracle. Despite my deep attachment to Israel and its people, if Israel had a flag that looked different upside down,…...

6+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (231+ words) The claim made by Tucker Carlson alleging that President Isaac Herzog visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island is an outright lie. The journalist who circulated the allegation later acknowledged that she had not verified the information and admitted that she had fallen…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) These have been lonely years for many of us. Since October 7, 2023, so many Jews have told me the same quiet truth: something shifted. Friends, colleagues, and classmates—people we thought understood us and cared about us as Jews and as…...

11+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1069+ words) There’s a well-known minhag that Jews try not to sleep during the day on Rosh Hashana. The commentaries quote the Yerushalmi: “Whoever sleeps on Rosh Hashana, his mazel sleeps.” The post The Sublime Sleep of Rosh Hashana appeared first on…...