A Shabbat friendly PDF attached at end of the page. Part of a collaboration with The Simchat Torah challenge ( Simchat Torah Challenge ) (In the Zechut of Refua Sheleima for גיטל פעשא בת מאשע רחל) Every day that passes, another headline reminds us of the battle being waged by radical ideologues on both left and right — what has become popularly known as the phenomenon of the "useful idiot." We witnessed the sheer double standards when these same voices refused to cry outra

A shabbat friendly pdf for printing can be found at the bottom of the page. Protesting Happy endings  I don’t really know what to do with the language of “happy endings” anymore—though if I’m honest, I was never much of a happy-ending kind of girl. By temperament I’m an optimist; in my soul I’m more of an existentialist. I identify with stripey  people: the ones who can live between things rather than retreating into solidified, compartmentalised ways of being. There is somet

For a Shabbat friendly printable pdf scroll to bottom of page. Narrating in an Age of Fragments Last week, tucked inside the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon , was a small pamphlet with a quietly audacious title: Megillat HaTekuma  — The Scroll of Rebirth . https://www.sulamot.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%A6%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%93%D7%99%D7%92%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOootA4Rt4BM-KVymqxloD

Find attached various articles and shiurim/lectures for Chanukah: Since Chanukah is the festival of light, I wanted to share a few small offerings of Torah light — sparks to illuminate these winter days: 1. Chanukah Class Hashmonaim, Hannah Arendt and Bialik: Fighting Darkness with Light, Spirit, and Might (With gratitude to Rabbanit Oshra and Matan Hasharon for permission to share.) Source sheet attached. 🔗 https://youtu.be/7OH9MtGYPD4?si=UC-i51OYkFcOJPSW 2. My Latest Artic

(Shabbat friendly printable PDF at the bottom of the page) What is a hero? Over the past two years we have witnessed heroism in forms we never imagined: the soldiers who dropped everything to defend their country — many making the ultimate sacrifice; the wives of miluimnikim navigating months, even hundreds of days, of absence; the hostages who endured unimaginable darkness and somehow emerged alive, resilient, even radiant; the survivors of Nova, of the kibbutzim, of the sou

I have had many conversations with friends about the unhealthy levels of anxiety so many of us are carrying in post–October 7th Israel. PTSD is a reality many soldiers are confronting after battle, and while it is not comparable, civilians too are experiencing the long-term psychological strain of living in a war zone. Some fear terrorists may invade their homes; others jump at every unexpected noise. A few weeks after October 7th, I caught myself imagining terrorists enterin

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There are images that will remain etched in our national consciousness for generations. One of them is Evyatar David: emaciated and starving, digging his own grave in a tiny cage—an image reminiscent of the graves Holocaust victims were forced to dig before being shot. We need no reminder of the depths of evil to which our enemies will sink, and indeed, they have succeeded in traumatizing us. This time, however, we were granted a redemptive image: Evyatar reunited with his fa

For a Shabbat Printable version click here: “Even if there are innocent people in Gaza, they don’t deserve to live,” he said to me. “I never used to think this way. I believed we had partners for peace. But after October 7, after witnessing the barbarity and hearing the hostages’ testimonies about the cruelty of ordinary Gazans, I no longer believe we can take any chances. We need to wipe Gaza off the map. ”This was a recent conversation with a secular Israeli friend. It was

For a Shabbat friendly printable copy click here: The Abrahamic Revolution Then and Now We need nothing less than a new Abrahamic revolution. A revolution that will return us to our spirit; a spirit that puts religion before dogma, love before law, and mystery before knowledge. And there are some who are telling us this. They are doing so in interviews and in social media posts. They are showing us that we can be different if only we return to our essence. These people have b

Painting by Leah Jacobson (copyright). Text from Leah Goldberg: "And Tomorrow we will all go out to the Garden, and there will be great Joy in the garden". The Flood of Simchat Torah 5784 / 5786 The war has ostensibly ended—for now. The living hostages have returned, and as we await the return of the remaining bodies, we find ourselves flooded by a torrent of emotions—joy and sorrow, relief and grief, wholeness and emptiness. On erev Simchat Torah I  could not properly proces

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