Category: Science and Health

On Feb. 20, MAZON: A JewishResponse to Hunger, announced they were adding transgender (trans) youth to its advocacy priority populations.  As the national and political climate grows increasingly difficult, MAZON is addressing concerns that trans youth are struggling to meet basic needs, including access to food. “We began exploring this as a possible priority for […]

Yekutiel Yehudah Halberstam (1905-1994) was born to a Hasidic family of the great Sanz dynasty in the small Jewish town of Rudnik, Poland. During the Holocaust, Rabbi Halberstam’s beloved wife and 11 children were sent to Auschwitz, where they were immediately murdered. As the sole survivor of his family, he faced the daily Nazi death […]

I was in Kibbutz Nir Oz the day it was announced that the bodies of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas would be returned to Israel. More than 1 in 4 members of the community, including the Bibas family, were either killed or taken hostage on October 7. Both Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians participated in […]

Trump’s critics give him too much credit. He’s neither evil nor calculating. He’s an impulsive power monger who’s obsessed with two things: not getting ripped off and closing deals. He got elected in large part because he convinced enough voters that it was high time America stopped getting ripped off, and as someone who’s an […]

The off-Broadway experience on everyone’s radar these days, surprisingly, is showing at the Center for Jewish History. In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank, they have mounted an installation that includes a full-scale replica of the secret annex in Amsterdam where she, her family and a few others hid until […]

An article published on Ynet News early in 2025 pairs J. Robert Oppenheimer to nuclear developments in Israel. The article describes how the growing energy needs of technology data centers may push Israel to develop nuclear power plants. However, it is also a tacit reminder of Israel’s nuclear weapons capability. According to Emad Moussa, Oppenheimer […]

The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) has agreed to a settlement with multiple Jewish organizations in which the district will suspend its ethnic studies courses until they’ve received public input and been rewritten. The lawsuit was initially filed in Sept. 2023 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Louis Brandeis Center for […]

For more than a dozen years, Rabbi Sharon Brous, the founder and leader of the unique synagogue Ikar (Hebrew for “the heart of the matter”)  has been considered one of the most influential rabbis, and last year her first book, “The Amen Effect,” became a national best-seller. But as we reported last week in Part […]

You would be forgiven if this past week confused you about the state of antisemitism in America and what can, and what should not, be done about it. There was even a self-destructive reminder of how Jews themselves feel about what’s been happening around them—a crisis manifested in both the hatred of Jews, and Jewish […]