1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (573+ words) As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour of Israel. Was I really ready to go to Israel to witness, report and write…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (369+ words) To opponents of the president, he erred in launching an attack on Iran at a time when Iran did not pose an imminent threat. Under this analysis, President Trump should not have acted unless the Iranian regime had actually initiated…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (322+ words) Much of this reflected legitimate concerns and, in some cases, necessary reform. But taken together, it also created a perception " sometimes overstated, but politically potent " that the party had become more fluent in advocacy than in the language of everyday…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (296+ words) Was JD Vance the right person to send to Islamabad? The better question may be: What, exactly, was the mission? The 21-hour negotiations between the United States and Iran ended predictably " no agreement, no movement on Tehran's core position and…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (382+ words) This is not a postwar assessment. It is a snapshot " taken in the uneasy pause of a tenuous ceasefire that may not hold by the time this is read. The guns are quieter, but not silent. Both sides are resting,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (922+ words) It started with a sentence spoken in a classroom. A teacher told a group of students that Israel was bombing Iranian children. The statement was presented without context, without clarification and without any attempt to frame the complexity of what…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (203+ words) This week's Torah portion is Tazria-Metzora: Leviticus 12: 1 " 15: 33 The commentators will dizzy themselves attempting to connect these essays on treatment to our own evolved lives and lifestyles today. They will also struggle to explain why someone might have come down with…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (820+ words) Despite security challenges and limited flights, hundreds have made aliyah in 2026. Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. "My worry was, how…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (562+ words) Dozens of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish authors are criticizing the Jewish Book Council, a historic literary group, for what they said was a "bias toward centering Israeli and Zionist voices'and "narrowing its vision to a Zionist approach to Jewish culture....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (210+ words) On Sunday, April 12, over 300 people gathered at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's 62nd Annual Holocaust Memorial Ceremony to commemorate the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. The ceremony also included candle lighting,…...