There is one truly powerful response that is often overlooked: to become more Jewish
This classic debate has only intensified today with the Hamas captive deal
Cheshbon hanefesh — literally, “an accounting of the soul.” We might also translate it as a “Commission of Self-Inquiry”
Never Again these days has a very hollow ring to it. Never Again has become Once Again
Here they come, the teenagers headed for their schools and dormitories, rolling their carry-ons behind them
We will “pass the ammunition” and destroy the enemy, but we dare not forget to “praise the L-rd” These are difficult days for us all. This is not an ordinary war — which is bad enough — but a medieval, Nazi-like, cold-blooded massacre and pogrom against Jews, rivaling in its brutality the bloodiest in Jewish
