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by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

The former Secretary of State, who has just died, discovered she was Jewish at age 59.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

OP-ED: Let’s mark this haunting milestone by strengthening our resolve to fill our lives with meaning and love.

by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson

With ironclad control of media, Putin wants Russians to forget their history so he can repeat it.

by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff

With everything going on in the world, we need to inculcate her message now more than ever.

by B.C. Wallin

Why do we have to remember the most forgettable guy in the whole Purim story?

by David Harris

Russia invaded Ukraine for its own imperialist reasons. Ukraine, like other sovereign nations, has the right to chart its own destiny.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

In Krakow, Rabbi Avi Baumol is aiding Ukrainian refugees.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Ukraine’s youthful and unconventional Jewish president is inspiring his nation.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Let’s heed the lessons of the pandemic and apply them to the threat of war.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

No one teaches you what to do in a war. Rebbetzin Miriam Moskovitz shares what it’s like in Ukraine right now.

by Shlomo Horwitz

Having fled Italy in 1939, Isaac Kinek was very sensitive to the needs of the underdog.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

Jewish student posts footage from class and opens opportunity for community dialogue, education.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

China has been accused of committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Here’s what you need to know, and what you can do about it.

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

The more valuable and treasured something is, the more private and protected we keep it.

by Unpacked

The Black community continued to face discrimination under the racist Jim Crow laws in the South which led to the civil rights movement. Jews across the United States, by overwhelming majority, joined the cause to end segregation and supported the civil rights cause.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Whoopie Goldberg isn’t an antisemite; she’s ignorant.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

A Tennessee school board’s decision to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning book from its curriculum furthers the ever-increasing ignorance about the Holocaust.

by Menucha Chana Levin

Only five Americans were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous of the Nations. This is the story of two of them.

by Rav Mo

We fight for humans but at the same time, attacks on Jews are more than half of the hate crimes.

by Rivka Ronda Robinson

After the synagogue attack in Texas, former Nazi TM Garret says we can rise above fear.

by Dr. Alisa Minkin

With her daughter failing to thrive, a pediatrician is submerged in a world of uncertainty, support groups and advocacy.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

by Ilana Kendal

The kind actor personally responded to my letter and taught me a valuable lesson that I’ve always remembered.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

The accumulated tension, stress and fear of Covid has given rise to a seething anger that has gripped a significant part of the population.

by Faygie Holt

For many, it was their first time meeting a Jew.

by Sammy Markowitz

The pitcher spent a few weeks of his off-season learning at Aish in Jerusalem, Israel.

by Dr. Tzachi Fried, Ph.D.

A psychologist’s insights on creating a path for real change.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Jamie Raskin’s son had everything going for him. What was missing?

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith

Having a special needs child has been compared to planning a vacation to Italy and somehow landing in Holland. What happens if you're too distraught to leave the plane?

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Medical marijuana is permissible, but recreational use prevents us from being our best selves.

by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg

“On a scale of one to 10, how would you rank your pain?” the nurse asked. “Ten thousand,” I said.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

For years Ksenia Coffman has been fighting to correct pro-Nazi distortions on Wikipedia.

by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller

Two Chicago teens found $1,000 blowing in the wind outside their Jewish school.

by Rabbi Tzvi Sytner

Why do we go all out thanking God for the small miracle of the oil?

by B.C. Wallin

The clever viral campaign shows the power of irrepressible creativity, taking initiative, and doing good for others, with a dash of marketing genius.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

The remarkable interplay between giving and receiving.

by Tzvi Gluckin

Because hope is a Jewish value.

by Tzvi Gluckin

Child-freedom combines the freedom from responsibility of being a child with the independence and means of being an adult. But can you really have your cake and eat it, too?

by Rob Henderson

I suspect I’m the only student at Cambridge University who lived out of garbage bags as a child. Here’s why I didn’t live the life I was meant to.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Ageism, the denigration and mistreatment of the elderly, is becoming recognized as a problem as serious as racism.

by Competitive Enterprise Institute, adapted from Leonard E. Read's 1958 Essay

Can a single individual, working independently and from scratch, create an ordinary yellow pencil?

by Rabbi Elchanan Poupko

What could I do for someone who knew he would die soon? I knew Len loved Raz and so I decided to ask the Israeli actor for a favor.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Dara Horn's new book offers marvelous daggers of acerbic observations about being Jewish today.

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

You don't have to listen to that voice that weighs you down, holds you back, or causes you to give up on your dreams.

by Ruchama Feuerman

Because good energy begets more good energy.

by Faygie Holt

Through Heroes to Heroes soldiers open up about their experience and move onto a path of spiritual healing.

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Take whatever blessing you have and use it to become a blessing in other people’s lives.

by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

How are we using the gift of increased time?