From Memorial to Remembrance, Day to Day, Between Zachor and Yizkor I wonder. What do I remember? What will we recall? The Midrash (Sifra, Behukotai) says: “How, then, do I fulfill ‘Remember’? – That you utter it with your mouth.” Repeat with your mouth – alter with your mouth. “Alter”, make “other” – make an […]
April 14, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES Never Again Means Now: Holocaust Memory Under Siege April 14: Holocaust & Heroism Remembrance Day The living survivors and liberators to the Holocaust – one of history’s greatest crimes against humanity – are passing away, silencing the few voices left to […]
April 7, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER Who Controls What We Believe? Wikipedia and AI Alter Reality Wikipedia is one of the most trusted sources of information in the world – and it is consistently manipulated. What appears to be neutral, crowdsourced knowledge often is shaped by a small number […]
March 31, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS Passover: Freedom Still Has a Steep Price “Why is this night different from all other nights?” Jews ask at every Passover Seder. This year, the answer is not symbolic – it is real, immediate and still unfolding. From rocket […]
March 24, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS Ancient Hate Fuels Today’s Anti-Jewish Violence Anti-Jewish narratives have boiled over from fringe spaces and online chat rooms to political campaigns and public conversations – without shame or constraint. Vile and violent antisemitic messages are spewing from across the […]
An Antidote to Fear Parashat Vayyikra begins with the words “And He called to Moses …” Rashi defines the verb vayyikra, “He called,” as a term of affection, closeness, and love. This call is heard from within the mishkan, the traveling Tabernacle, a place built after the great crisis of the golden calf, perhaps as […]
March 17, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS The War Comes Home: Jewish Communities Under Attack An Islamist terrorist rammed a truck filled with fireworks and chemicals into a Michigan synagogue’s main entrance before exchanging gunfire with security. Armed guards at Temple Israel stopped the attacker from […]
“A time for war and a time for peace.” Ecclesiastes 3:8 Why a time for war now? A long history binds Jews and Persians together: from Cyrus, who Isaiah called “the Lord’s anointed,” to the days of the Amoraim and the Geonim. Modern Iran and Israel have no inherent reason to fight: they share no […]
March 10, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – VOICES – STORIES Week 2 of the Iran War | Myths and Libels America and Israel are currently fighting against the Iranian regime on behalf of much of the world; Iran has murdered or maimed civilians from Bulgaria to France and from […]
March 3, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS Iran has Waged 47 Years of Aggression Against America Decades of Iranian Hostility Against the United States The U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran’s terrorist regime followed decades of Iranian attacks on Americans and an escalating risk to U.S. civilians, […]