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I Don't Want to Stand Out as a Jew Anymore
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Yom Kippur: The Three Levels of Forgiveness
Yom Kippur: Everyone Falls
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When She Totally Lost Her Cool
Strategic Repentance: Creative Ways to Make Yourself Do the Right Thing
The Right to be Forgotten
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The university should rescind their invitation to Leila Khaled and take a stand against terrorism.
by Sara Debbie Gutfreund
Four crucial ideas from this poignant masterpiece of writing.
Arts
The Umbrella Academy and Lovecraft Country trafficked in damaging anti-Jewish slurs.
by Harold Gans
by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
When looking out at the world, make sure to clean your windows first.
by Shabbos Kestenbaum
In our rush to retain some semblance of normalcy we haven’t allowed our kids to mourn what they've lost.
by Charles L. Richman, PhD
By fierce example, my father taught me the importance of social justice, equality and fairness.
Dear Emuna
by Emuna Braverman
My husband wants them and I think they’re luxuries we don’t need.
by Rabbi Shmuel Kraines
Contemplate the Jewish symbolism of the grapevine and its wine.
by Rabbi Philip Moskowitz
You don’t need to jump in front of an oncoming train, like my cousin, to be a hero. You have to stand up to harassment, bullying or other injustices.
by Sarah Rudolph
The pandemic has made us more sensitive to the fact that everyone has the capacity to harm another – with our germs, with our words, with our actions.
by Robert Scott Kellner
Where will the culture of internet attacks lead? The diaries of Nazi opponent Friedrich Kellner offer warnings.
by Judy Gruen
Public-private security coordination is the name of the game in today’s new reality. Bringing good food helps, too.
For years Dr. David Tenenbaum has worked to clear his name.
by Unpacked
Surprisingly, Seth Rogen's film gets a number of things right about Judaism and the Jewish immigrant experience.
Why can't a colleague and fellow working mom work as much as I do?
by Charlotte Greenblatt
A unique selection of art depicting Jewish Magical Realism.
Leon Fleisher, who recently died at 92, built a piano career despite losing use of his right hand.
by Sarah Shapiro
How a survivor of the atom bomb stopped hating the pilot who flew the plane.
by Jeff Jacoby
Culturally, the freedom to express unpopular views has never been more endangered.
In the #NoDenyingIt campaign, Holocaust survivors ask Facebook to remove Holocaust denial.
by Rabbi Noach Gruen
The quickest way to make yourself crazy is to focus on everything in life you cannot control.
Chief Editor's Blog
by Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith
The world needs Aish.com's innovation and insights more than ever.
by Rabbi Tzvi Sytner
If we're not a unified family, we no longer need the house.
Antisemitic ideas in America today and the conspiracy theories that drive them.
A century ago Jewish newsman Adolph Ochs made the New York Times America’s premier newspaper.
We can either choose to divide or connect. Dividers spew hate, connectors share love.
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
The paper has lost sight of its "deepest responsibility to make readers think".
by Daniella H.
Life lessons we can learn from playing Bananagrams.
Don't let a legitimate goal – overcoming racial bigotry – turn into a frenzy of character assassination and public humiliation.
I wish my husband would acknowledge the fact that I'm working very hard, especially during Covid-19.
Greatness isn't measured by the applause of the crowds.
What stimulates positive change, and drives people to pursue justice, equality, goodness, and truth is not anger or rage, but outrage.
by aish.com
An interview with Lieutenant Steve Riback.
by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair
Why do we "proclaim freedom throughout the land" with a broken, imperfect bell?
African American women of the 6888th Battalion delivered millions of pieces of mail during World War II.
It has become tempting to reduce historical figures to a single, defining, negative characteristic. It's also false.
by Aliza Bracha Klein
The past several weeks have been overwhelming and heartbreaking for me.
by Steve Riback
I will never stand for or justify racism, illegal acts, brutality or excessive force by police officers. But we need to set the record straight.
Senior Nazi official Ernst Hansfstaengl attended his 25th Harvard reunion in 1934, despite his Nazi ties.
Comprehending the music of the roaring sea.
Help, I can’t breathe.
by Rabbi Ken Spiro
Judaism gave the world the belief that that there is one infinite Creator of the universe Who is the Father of all humanity, regardless of the color of one’s skin.
Growing up as a black Orthodox Jew in Chicago, Lev Perlow witnessed racism first-hand.
by Rabbi Yaakov Cohen
A rabbi's acts of kindness and respect make a surprising impact decades later.
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