Your Ultimate Guide to the Big 5 (and I am not talking about Africa this time!) Pura Ulun Danu Bratan bali indonesia If Asia has been on your bucket list, this is your moment. Japan’s cities are topping global trending destination lists, and the entire “Big Five” region (Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Indonesia) is seeing […]
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On October 5, 2025, in Tel Aviv, I sat in a theater for the Israeli premiere of One Day in October, the upcoming HBO Max miniseries about October 7. It was two days before the second anniversary of that horrific day — a day that is not just history to me, but memory. That Saturday, my […]
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Since 2020, the Western world has been on a covered-face fetish. The pandemic made the N95 mask an indispensable artifact of the coronavirus—more important an accessory than the iPhone. We came to accept that protecting our respiratory systems meant forfeiting our facial identities. Soon faces were masked for infections of a different sort. Viruses migrated […]
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Batya Ungar-Sargon wore a Magen David necklace as she hosted the first episode of her weekly NewsNation show “Batya!” on Sept. 20. Before the debut, she told The Journal “It’s to remind me and my viewers who I am as a Jew,” One the show, Ungar-Sargon told guest Megyn Kelly she was one of her […]
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Actress Rita Zohar didn’t have to search far for her role as a Holocaust survivor in Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great.” She is a Holocaust survivor herself. Though Zohar did not experience the horrors of the war directly — she was only four-and-a-half months old when her family was liberated from the concentration camp […]
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These are the parts of the Lulav and Etrogwe have held in our hands since we firstwandered the desert – LulavHow impressive you are, our spine, straight and bold.Pain, heat, softness, even tickling – every one of ourphysical feelings travels your distance. HadasYou are our eyes through which we see allthat there is to see. […]
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When President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented a new ceasefire and hostage-release plan on Sept. 29, The New York Times reported that hostage families called the deal a “historic turning point.” Yehuda Cohen, father of hostage Nimrod Cohen, did not share that description. “Okay. First of all, I wouldn’t call it […]
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A sukkah was nearly selected as the symbol of America. On July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to design a seal for the United States. John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were chosen for the task. Franklin, amidst the early brainstorming sessions, […]
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It was impossible not to feel hopeful as the most powerful man in the world waxed dreamily about solving a conflict he says is “thousands of years old” and aiming for nothing less than “eternal peace in the Middle East.” What is noteworthy about Trump’s plan, which got the support and input of Prime Minister […]
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When, and if, World War III commences between Islamists and the tattered remnants of Western democracy, America is now on notice of a dwindling list of allies to fight alongside it. This past week was a pitiful reminder of the back-stabbing spinelessness that now governs once-great countries. France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Portugal […]
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