Ran Gvilli z"l is on his way home. The IDF recovered his body in a cemetery in eastern Gaza City. He has been positively identified, and his family has been informed that he is on his way home, for burial. I think every Israeli and Jew in the world is flooded with feelings. We are so grateful that he has been found and his family has closure. With his return, there are no more Israeli hostages, alive or dead, left in Gaza. Which means, that this part of this fever-dream we ha

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 participa

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

I think we're all following this phenomenon of silence on the left in response to the revolution in Iran. It is so counterintuitive- people who claim to care about liberal ideals, human rights, protesting against what they deem to be gen*cidal, and or unacceptable on the global stage. You see them chanting for H*mas, for captured dictators to be freed, doing stupid things for stupid causes, acting in nonsensical ways that you can't really figure out. At first, I thought it wa

I'll be honest, I can't fathom the d*ath toll of 12,000 people that they are reporting. They have only "confirmed" 2,000, but based on what they are seeing on the streets, the morgues, what families are reporting - this is the number they are saying is true. 12,000. I don't want to compare it to other "numbers." Other conflicts. I don't even have the energy to call out the celebrities and movements that have abandoned the Iranian people- alive and d*ad. I'll just say this: Th

You would barely know that Iran is having a revolution if you didn't have social media. You would never know about the injustice happening in the streets as people protesting are being gunned down by their government. The celebrities who have been screaming for Palestinians are silent. The social media accounts are silent. The protesters on college campuses and all over the world- silent. All while the Iranians are fighting for their lives. For their freedom. For their countr

The IRGC is threatening to attack Israel if either the USA or Israel gets involved in the current revolution. Earlier, I said that the destiny of the people of Israel is tied to the Iranian people. We're tethered for many reasons- but one of the loudest reasons at the moment is that the in the geopolitical calculations of whether the USA (or Israel) should help the people, the risk is that the people of Israel will suffer the consequence. Today, the Iranian government said, “

If you believed the news or social media, you would think that the world was a horrible place. I won't deny it. It can be unbearably harsh, cruel, and full of injustice. But I think it's important to remember that even though we don't often see it on our feeds, there is a tremendous amount of love in the world, too. I know hospitals can be horrible places. I'm sitting with my father as he recovers (BH!), and we are really enjoying our time together, even though we'd rather be

If anyone tells you that Israel is an apartheid state, has clearly never been in an Israeli emergency room. I don’t have so much headspace right now as I’m sitting with a loved one, but I’ll say this. The emergency room is where the true face of Israel comes alive. Arab and Jewish doctors and nurses working side by side, treating patients from all religions and nationalities together. I saw an American volunteer handing out lunch “to work on her Hebrew.” A Jewish nurse with a

Antisemitism is a strategy. People who want to distract you pitch you a hatred so intense that reality becomes optional. People can be starving, imprisoned, or suffering. A country can be collapsing under corruption and brutality. And still, the answer offered is imaginary: Blame the Jews. Blame the Zionists. Everything will be fixed. So now we have a situation with the US bombing and kidnapping the "President" of Venezuela, who stole the presidency and the lives and liveliho