What do you really want, Palestinian Protester? You, who are masquerading in the costume of freedom and justice and liberation? Do you want Palestinians to…
My heart breaks, at the sight of broken glass, that we are so despised there are those who would wipe us out. My heart breaks,…
At first, I shut my eyes to your faces. I closed my ears to your stories. I hardened my heart to your families’ pain. I…
Don’t tell me Hitler wasn’t all that bad, that he wasn’t crazy or half-mad, because, he was. Don’t make him seem somewhat reasonable, and say…
The arthritic bones of the aged synagogue, ache. It groans, having to face another day, carrying on its hunched shoulders the souls of generations past,…
“Today antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim it’s hatred or…
As I was standing at my pew, preparing to begin the year anew, my tallit was obstinate as I prayed. First it slipped the shoulder…
“If I am not for me, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?”…
Israel, our ner tamid, our eternal light, burns in every Jewish heart, kindling hope and promise and redemption, fulfilling the yearning of our people for…
“Given all these circumstances, about the only effective form of resistance the Jews in ghettos could exercise in the short run was to defeat the…
“That is what the wilderness was. It was not Egypt, not Israel, but the no-man’s-land between them. Liminal space is important not for what it…
