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 […]
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, […]
March 1, 2026 With war now underway in Israel, our focus is squarely on supporting those in Israel under attack, as we also hold in our thoughts civilians and US and IDF troops in harm’s way. We wish healing to those injured, we mourn those who have been killed in the past day and extend […]
Between Fate and Destiny The book of Esther turns fate into destiny. The pur, the cast lot, along with powerful forces influence our lives. There is so much of which we have no control. What will be? We do not know. However, there are moments when, if we are present and feel God’s presence within […]
SIGN THE PETITION! February 25, 2026 On the morning of February 25, the Knesset advanced legislation that strikes at the heart of Jewish unity and religious pluralism. The bill would transfer authority over all prayer at the Kotel to the ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate, criminalize religious services that do not conform to its standards, and effectively dismantle […]
February 24, 2026 STAY INFORMED – TALKING POINTS – ACTIONS TO CONSIDER – STORIES MAKING NEWS Lies Spread Faster Than Truth: Iran, Qatar, Hamas and Carlson As the U.S. military masses its largest military presence in the Middle East in more than 20 years, Iran is waging a parallel information war aimed at destabilizing Western […]
Mandating jail for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall would shatter the fragile covenant between Israel and the Jewish communities that sustain it This article originally appeared in the Times of Israel on February 24, 2026 Conservative/Masorti Movement leaders praying at the Egalitarian Kotel in October 2025 (photo: MERCAZ Olami) The past week has been […]