Ideas

The Hamas attack wasn’t the Holocaust. But it must be understood in terms of Jewish trauma.

Historical analogies carry risks, but ignoring history denies Jews their humanity, writes the president of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Ideas

Here’s why we’re holding a Jewish Oktoberfest despite the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust

A German consulate-sponsored event creates community and reminds us of a brighter future, writes the co-founder of the Lehrhaus tavern and house of learning outside Boston.

Ideas

How do we forge ahead after calamity? The Jewish way of mourning offers a roadmap.

Tradition understands the gradual, crooked path of recovering from tragedy, writes the cofounder of an Orthodox women’s yeshiva.

Without Jewish friends at my school, I feel alone in my fears about what’s happening in Israel

How to be a liberal Zionist when Israel is at war

I finished reading the Torah in a bomb shelter, while my kids huddled in their safe room

I’m far from the front lines, but like all Israelis, I am feeling Hamas’ attack firsthand

Once Mr. Security, Netanyahu failed to meet Israelis’ most basic security needs. How?

10 years and 318 million words later, Sefaria brings Torah study into the digital age

Why I spent Yom Kippur protecting Palestinian villagers from settler violence

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