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Loris Malaguzzi Centre. (Photo by PhotoVim, Wikimedia Commons)
October 14, 2026, 10:22 am
A journey interrupted, a commitment to learning
Last week, I learned that the trip, organized for about 100 Jewish early childhood educators from the United States and Israel, had been canceled.
By Katie Riggs
A protester holds a Pro-Palestinian protesters overwhelm the area of New York City's Union Square where an Israeli peace group planned to hold an Oct. 7 vigil on Oct. 7, 2026. (Joe Strauss/JTA)
October 14, 2026, 10:13 am
What I found at the NYC protest on Oct. 7: No room for Jewish grief
What I saw was a form of political expression that had become indistinguishable from hatred.
By Aaron Greenberg
Barbie Holiday Sweater Doll (Mattel)
October 9, 2026, 12:32 pm
Hanukkah Barbie is here — and she actually got the Jewish holiday right
There’s something pretty powerful about finally feeling seen.
By Yael Buechler
Passengers from flydubai flight FZ1073 walk with their family members through the arrivals hall at Ben Gurion International Airport on Sept. 30, 2026. (Flash90)
October 7, 2026, 9:45 am
Flydubai Flight FZ1073 and the indomitability of the Jews
We are the people who, for nearly 2,000 years, never forfeited our hope of returning to our ancestral homeland.
By Michael Oren
A flydubai Boeing 737-800. (Source: Wikipedia Commons)
October 7, 2026, 9:42 am
For a few terrifying minutes, Israelis were heroes again
Israeli passengers helped overpower the attacker and restrain him, while pilots traveling as passengers assisted in getting the aircraft safely onto the ground.
By Dan Perry
(Photo Source: ChatGPT for illustrative purposes, via The Times of Israel)
October 1, 2026, 2:22 pm
The plight of American Jewish activism
"[I]nstitutions are tools, not sacred objects, and respecting what previous generations built cannot mean placing it beyond examination when the world around us has changed."
By Shlomi Bennett
A flydubai Boeing 737-800. (Source: Wikipedia Commons)
September 30, 2026, 3:25 pm
Unprecedented: Extraordinary heroism and near-miraculous circumstances avert an airplane catastrophe
There appears to be no prior instance of passengers thwarting a pilot’s attempt to crash a commercial airliner
By David Horovitz
(Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen, iStock)
September 30, 2026, 9:20 am
I have kept this secret for 25 years
In 2001, a movie scene prompted me to start a journal for my 1-year-old.
By Romi Sussman
Community Day School. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
September 30, 2026, 9:15 am
Jewish Pittsburgh’s next pioneers
Pittsburgh’s educational landscape is changing.
By Casey Weiss
(Photo by Jacob Wackerhausen, via iStock)
September 24, 2026, 10:50 am
Estate plan design: Last will and testament versus revocable living trust
You may think that having a significant amount of wealth in retirement accounts would support using a will, but a trust is often a better solution.
By Matthew F. Schwartz and John P. Montoya
Rijksmuseum. (Photo by Cebas, iStock.com)
September 24, 2026, 10:49 am
A trip to Jewish Amsterdam
What I’d been looking for the entire time, I realized, was living Judaism, and we found it nearby at the Portuguese Synagogue, or Esnoga.
By Tim Miller
Dictionary definition of antisemitism. (Via JTA)
September 24, 2026, 10:42 am
The importance of defining antisemitism
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism provides a widely used framework for identifying contemporary antisemitism.
By Dave Sunday
(Photo by Alan Mazzocco, iStock)
September 16, 2026, 9:54 am
A call to serve on Election Day
There is always a need for new poll workers. So, please, give it some thought.
By Andee Lowenstein
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor with the Special Jury Prize for "Naza" during the Venice International Film Festival (Photo by Ondine Goat, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
September 16, 2026, 9:45 am
Two screens, one choice: The lie of ‘NAZA’ and the truth of ‘Fauda’
Perhaps it is time to choose the truth
By Fiamma Nirenstein
The white marble Wall of Names positioned on the flight path (James Steakley, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
September 11, 2026, 3:37 pm
On the 25th anniversary of the heroism of the passengers of Flight 93
We best honor the memories of the heroes "by living our lives by the virtues for which they gave theirs: Courage, Fearlessness, Patriotism, Fidelity, Faith."
By Rabbi James A. Gibson
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