Two quick thoughts came to mind for the prompt. In Sefer Yeshaya (11:9), the Navi describes the Messianic era as a time when: “They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land ...

A young girl walks through the Old City of Jerusalem. There is a word that appears several times in Tanach with a haunting, resonant power. Another time, in the opening passage we read Tisha B’Av ...

Iran’s war on world shipping has moved from think-tank scenario to everyday reality. Repeated threats to the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing attacks near the Bab al-Mandab are reshaping the map of global ...

Israelis celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Efrat in 2017. I was once practicing with one of the singers I sometimes perform with, and we were about to work on the popular melody for Mi Sheberach for the ...

Last week the United States Court of Appeals, sitting in New York – one level below the U.S. Supreme Court – restored a 2015 judgment against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the ...

Grace is one of those words we use a lot, but we usually think of it as something polished. Someone calm, composed, handling everything just right. That’s one way to define it. Grace is also what ...

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It is clear from the halachic literature that Shulamit and Shlomit are two distinct names. In fact, Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrachi (in his responsa §67) explicitly writes that if one wrote the name Shlomit ...

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) occupies a singular place in the history of modern art. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania into a prosperous and culturally ambitious family, she became one of the most ...

At the end of last week, Chana was released from the hospital after another suicide attempt, and she wasn’t eligible for admission to another facility. We found out about a “bayit meyazen,” and we ...

American Jews are at a tipping point. Both sides of the political spectrum have pockets of antisemitic extremists, leaving many Jews feeling not just politically homeless, but afraid of what is to ...

A friend of mine mentioned how her husband, a righteous man, ran to be the tenth guy for a minyan for someone who couldn’t get to shul, when suddenly he tripped and tore his ligaments, requiring ...