I don't think we understand the meaning behind a digital blackout. The fact that thousands upon thousands of Iranians have been k*lled by the regime, and there are so many, they can barely count them. Whatever images and videos we have are but a mere trickle of content- most people can't get to the internet. Can't post what they've seen. Can't share their realities. No internet so the regime can hide what they are doing. No internet so the world can't see what's happened. No internet so they...

Kfir Bibas would have been three today. When a little boy turns three years old in Jewish tradition, it means something. In many Jewish communities, it is the age of becoming. For some its the first haircut- transitioning from a baby to a boy. For others its the beginning of learning Torah, the focus shifting from babyhood to education. For all children, it's when language begins to explode- they begin to notice the world around them on a deeper level. They begin to participate in family...

The Ayatollah masterminded his own demise. Since Oct 7th, there have been many times when there were moments so unfair that I couldn't process them. Things happened that seemed to have no rhyme or reason in their level of cru*lty, so absent of justice, so bereft of compassion. Those who didn't come home. Those who mourned over empty beds. Those who had to live with the unspeakable things they saw. And yet, when I pull back on the meta moment- the larger view of history, there are some...