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What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist By Daphne Lazar Price Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

Paula Slier In Israel’s AI election, who decides what is true? Forget the spectacular deepfake. AI’s most dangerous feature is the way it packages reality for voters

Judy Halper You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

Don’t give Hamas this victory By Avidan Freedman At a protest against an illegal outpost near my home in Efrat, I saw how October 7 has warped Israelis’ moral compass. We must get back on track

Gershon Baskin A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

From Our Sponsor Hundreds of struggling families still need your helping hand This Rosh Hashanah, your $80 gift provides a holiday food package to struggling families, seniors, and Holocaust survivors across central Israel.

Sarah Tuttle-Singer It takes a village – and the Peoples of Israel – to get me out of a dress What do you do when you’re the only grown-up in the house?

When the PM’s wife accuses a hero By Gil Mildar Sara Netanyahu not only attacks her husband’s opposition, she also answers questions in his name. It’s time she answered to the Israeli people

Vladimir Lapin The doors I wish we could keep open This holiday season, US synagogues want to welcome new people, even as we’re cautious about who we let in. We’ve gotten used to the dance, but isn’t that part of the problem?

Menachem Rosensaft Ratko Mladic is dead. The meaning of genocide must live on When the general ordered the slaughter of Bosniaks at Srebernica, he aimed to destroy a people. That’s why it was genocide — and why Israel’s Gaza war was not

25 years after Durban: The questions Israel must face By Tova Herzl The 2001 UN racism conference descended into antisemitism, amplifying charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Can Israel still rebut them?

Shayna Goldberg When we forget, God remembers This Rosh Hashana, I’m grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer’s began taking him from us

Rachel Sharansky Danziger Dolly’s riches and my new-baby haze are improving Israel’s election season When I can give all of my attention to Israeli politicking, I’m at risk of missing the important stuff, buried amid the barrages of ugly accusations.

The blessings hidden in a terrible disease By Ben Lazarus PSP has brought suffering I would never wish on anyone. But approaching the High Holy Days, I find myself looking at both sides of life’s ledger

Top Ops

Shmuel Holiday Don’t talk about the sledgehammer. Talk about the monument The outrage over Zvi Sukkot’s stunt obscured the question Israel should be pushing the world to ask: Why are terrorists being publicly commemorated?   Emanuel Shahaf The conflict has changed. We’re still asking yesterday’s questions Instead of asking where the border should run, shouldn’t we ask how two peoples can govern a space they already share?