The Az Nashir Haggadah:
On the Path to Redemption
(Matan Edition)

I want to know what would have happened if they had caught them. Yesterday, two skirt-clad, weaponless, female IDF soldiers were rescued by police in Bnei Brak. V*olence erupted after the soldiers were seen in the neighborhood, and there was a rumor spread that they had arrived to distribute military draft notices. The IDF reported that they were not, but were in the neighborhood to do a welfare visit as part of their regular duties as squad commanders at the Education and Yo

I remember the day that Arbel was released from G*za. She was paraded through the streets in a sea of green headbands, rough men grasping her, pressing into her, practically suff*cating her. We held our breaths as she walked through that pit of vipers, unsure whether she would keep putting one foot in front of the other, whether she would get out of there alive. Any moment felt like it could all just erupt in v*olence and end. So precarious. She, so precious and small compare

I'm fascinated by this question that has come up in response to Bad Bunny and his half-time show. "What is American?" and "Who is American?" I watched the show the next day. I didn't understand a word of what was said, but obvious the music had great beats, and it was very entertaining. One can argue about "the appropriateness for public television" of the language or dancing, but that's irrelevant for this post. I actually got pretty emotional watching the story that Benito

I think Robert Kraft's Super Bowl commercial about antisemitism brought up this question of identity. I see people all over social media and in WhatsApp groups asking- What is it that we want the world to know about antisemitism- - and what is it that we want them to know about us? Are we victims or warriors? Are we weak or strong? Should we be liked because we are innovative or smart? Or would our fearsomeness be enough to scare the bullies away? I wonder about this question

The level of psychotic Jew hatred, post the release of the Epstein files, is unlike anything I've ever seen. It has been horrific since Oct 7th, but the level of conspiracy that has broken into the "mainstream" is beyond comprehension. People with the biggest podcasts in the world like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, are saying things that the "craziest conspiracy podcasters" would say- but now, because of the release of the files- (which rational people are still trying to

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