Magazine
Parashat Devarim: Always relevant
The Torah remains unchanged, yet its message can be expressed anew in the language, challenges, and circumstances of every generation.
A Shabbat with a view: Falling for Hotel Beit Shmuel, one balcony at a time - review
Audrey Lynn Leinoff: From pinned down to pinpointed
'Together On Our Own': A relationship conundrum with AI - review
'Go big and go home': North American families make aliyah in the shadow of war
As Nefesh B’Nefesh opens its 2026 summer aliyah season, several hundred North American families gather in a synagogue garden, most of them still mid-move and none of them turning back.
Jerusalem highlights: July 10-16
What's new to do in Israel's capital?
Israel’s ‘Tinder for pets’ is helping shelter animals match with loving homes
An Israeli nonprofit is using a Tinder-style app to match shelter dogs and cats with loving families and reduce failed adoptions.
Esther Marcus helped Israelis recover from October 7 - then she became a war widow
Esther Marcus, a Kibbutz Alumim resident and therapist, helped establish resilience centers for survivors while coping with the sudden death of her husband, Stevie, after October 7.
Parashat Matot-Masei: Don’t borrow identity
Public debate has become louder, more bitter, and less capable of self-correction because opinions have hardened into identities.
Parashat Matot-Masei: Slow and steady
The most important movement is not always what is visible externally, but what takes place within a person.
Entebbe daze
Having lived in Israel, now for several decades, I’ve come to realize that my personal history and Israel’s modern history are inextricably intertwined.
'Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land': America’s relationship with the Torah - review
The language America reaches for, at its best moments and its worst, has always been ours. Not borrowed. Ours. We wrote the story it keeps retelling. We are still here to see how it ends.
'Stalin’s Apostles': The Cambridge Five and the lost world of Jewish Communism - review
From elite universities to Soviet handlers, the Cambridge Five helped Stalin penetrate Britain’s security and decision-making core.
Like Moses, Israel needs leaders who understand different perspectives - opinion
Moses defined the quality every great leader needs: the ability to understand every human spirit.
