When you see a shattered soul, you don’t care about nationality. You don’t say “But we suffer also”. You just cry. Cry about human cruelty Cry about mankind. I pray he finds comfort. I pray god heal his wounds. I pray peace comes. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

“We’re brothers, man. They came to the rescue.” Chassidic Jews, volunteering with community patrol group Shomrim, helped a Palestinian store owner catch a shoplifter armed with a knife in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This is what it means to be a community 💜 IG: @/xeverydaypeople

We need more creative art from more creative artists because the quality of these things informs the quality of our thinking and feeling and the material world around us responds deeply to how we think and feel.

every man is not only himself; he is also the unique, particular, always significant and remarkable point where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred —Hermann Hesse

I keep returning to this powerful insight by Hermann Hesse. Yearning for beauty means being homeless in this world.

The first 120-page section of McCarthy’s The Crossing is perfect in a way few novels get to be, and concludes with a passage only a handful of writers have been capable of producing.

It’s raining. I look out of my window and think about the people in Gaza, many still in tents. I also think about the Israelis, who come in the rain to the West Bank to help us pick olives. I pray for both. And I pray for peace. 🙏🕊️

I once wondered how a society could stand by as 6 million Jews were murdered in gas chambers, how people became so desensitized to human life. Now I see the vile rhetoric blaming Jews for every societal ill—a twisted, irrational hatred that defies logic. It’s not just human; it’s

A message to our Jewish friends in Canada and around the world: I know our institutions are failing you. And it is impossible not to feel isolated or discouraged in a moment like this, when hatred aimed at your families is met with hesitation, silence and inaction from the very

"Like', and 'like' and 'like'- but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?" - from Woolf's The Waves, a superb counter to our internet-addled minds, a testament to the capacity for individual consciousness to transcend itself in search of harmony, beauty.

"Everything must be done to rebuke the horror of deformity." Virginia Woolf, The Waves.

When it gets hard, just remember, you have readers quietly waiting for your words (even if they don't know it yet!)

"Every generation rediscovers the dream of purity, and every generation pays for it." quillette.com/2025/11/23/aga…

FOURTH printing!!! Thank you!

🚨 American students changed their mind on Hamas I'm so proud to share this with all of you. During my recent visits to American campuses to speak about the Abraham Accords, some non-Jewish students (mostly Muslims) told me that they now understand that Hamas is a terrorist

OK, everyone. Let’s try to get this trending. If you’re disgusted at Dublin City Council trying to erase Irish Jewish history and want to help the tiny Jewish community here in some way, please do quote tweet with the hashtag: #HandsOffHerzogPark Let it be known Irish Jewry is

‘We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’

Understanding is a rare and beautiful thing. It’s a very good feeling not to expect it often or from just anybody.

I will never forget how Rom looked like two months ago, when he was released from the Gazan hell. A skeleton, wrapped in the flag of Israel. He survived the unimaginable. He is slowly healing. And yesterday, he celebrated his 22nd birthday in Kfar HaMaccabia,where he is still

'. . . as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than to be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety!' (Melville, Moby-Dick) And Fernando Pessoa's 'Fifth Empire':