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Sep 8, 2026, 1:40 PM

This past December I became seriously ill, and only later did I understand how close the angel of death had come on that first night in the hospital. Fortunately, those caring for me made sure he was ultimately kept...

Sep 8, 2026, 1:20 PM

The Most Heartfelt Shehecheyanu I’ll Ever Say

It took double bypass heart surgery to teach me to stop bypassing the things that really matter. This Friday night Rosh Hashanah begins. At our dinner table I will raise my kiddush cup full of wine and say a blessing...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sep 7, 2026, 6:43 PM

The peoples of Israel have all seen me in my pajamas

The peoples of Israel have all seen me in my pajamas. I’ll explain: My son is on the autism spectrum. This wasn’t exactly on my parenting bingo card when he was born, but we are leaning into the everyday whimsy of...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:31 PM

The Language and Grammar of the Olim Urban Dictionary

The other day, my son came home from Miluim and, while describing a car he wants to buy, he talked about its comfortability. Or maybe he was referring to his Negev? Been a busy week. Anyway, my wife and I...

Sep 6, 2026, 9:40 AM

My grandparents at their wedding - June 20,1946

“Why didn’t grandma give me the “heirloom” that she spoke about?” asked my son, Yoav. “It’s a long story”, I answered. My son, Yoav married his bashert, Danielle on June 7, 2026. My mother, her husband and my uncle (my mother’s brother)...

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Sep 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

Bring them with you

Every seven years, the Torah commands the entire Jewish people to gather in Yerushalayim for Hakhel: “Gather the people—the men, the women and the small children.” הַקְהֵל אֶת הָעָם, הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטַּף (Devarim 31:12) The Gemara asks why everyone came. The men came...

Gabriella Jacobs

Sep 2, 2026, 8:15 PM

A Jewish scavenger hunt through South America

My husband has apparently received an unexpectedly high number of questions lately about whether his wife is Brazilian. I am not Brazilian, (which I'm sure shocks you). I am, however, a proud product of a family that considers Brazil, Argentina,...

Shayna Goldberg

Sep 1, 2026, 8:01 PM

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I'm grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer's began taking him from us

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 29, 2026, 10:19 AM

Biohacking and Longevity “Tech”

The miracle drug? The ultimate “biohack”. The best “longevity medicine”. It has been sitting there all along. Want a Longer Life? Try Righteousness We spend billions trying not to die. Supplements. Wearables. Cold plunges. Continuous glucose monitors. Hyperbaric chambers. Rapamycin. NAD+. Special...

Aug 28, 2026, 5:53 PM

The Myth of the Cheap Israeli Vacation: What 4 Days in Eilat Actually Cost

The idea of an Israeli family vacation is a myth. What 4 days in Eilat actually cost is something we learned the way. This trip started the summer before at Kibbutz Lotan, which's about forty-five minutes north of Eilat....

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