Why I Do THIS
Teaser: I don’t usually get so personal. But this one has been sitting in me for a while, and it was time to say it, or rather, write it. Everything I do here— every video, every post, every conversation, every lecture— traces back to one thing.
A fight I had long before I ever picked up a camera. And a phrase that stopped being abstract the moment I understood what it actually meant to lose the next generation. L’dor V’dor. From generation to generation.
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Judea & Samaria: Setting the Record Straight
Teaser: The word "occupation" gets thrown around constantly when it comes to Judea and Samaria. But here's what almost nobody tells you — under international law, this land was never sovereign Palestinian territory. There has never been a Palestinian state. The term "West Bank" was invented by Jordan in 1950. Ancient Jewish holy sites fill this land going back thousands of years.
The Oslo Accords divided the territory into zones — and Zone C, where Israeli communities exist, was designated for full Israeli civil and military control under that very agreement. Meanwhile the Palestinian Authority has illegally built on over 250 sites in Zone C — outnumbering unauthorized Israeli construction by 20 to 1. You haven't heard that because the media doesn't report it.
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The Acceptable Jew: Why Being Jewish Is Only Tolerated If You're Not a Zionist
Teaser: A new social bargain has taken hold in the modern West — you may be Jewish, so long as you are not a Zionist. Renounce Jewish nationalism, distance yourself from Israel, signal that you are one of the "safe" Jews — and you will be accepted.
This is not a new dynamic. For centuries Jews have been handed the same ultimatum in different language: surrender what society finds inconvenient about you, and you may stay. Today the demand has simply evolved. It's no longer your religion they object to. It's your peoplehood.
The "good Jew / bad Jew" divide is back. And history is very clear about where that road leads.
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Born on Tu BiShvat: What a Jewish Birthday Taught Me About Roots, Purpose and Speaking Up
Teaser: I used to be the girl who barely wanted to say her own name out loud. The one who tore up her Columbia diploma on camera and had no idea if anyone would even care.
Something shifted. Purpose has a way of finding you when you stop running from it.
Being born on Tu BiShvat — the Jewish new year of the trees — has always felt like a reminder that roots form in the dark before anything reaches the light. That growth is quiet before it's visible. That the questions worth asking are rarely comfortable ones.
This is the story of how I got here. And why I'm not done yet.
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After the Hostages: What Israel Must Do Differently Now
Teaser: Israel is celebrating the return of 20 living hostages. And already — Hamas is testing the lines again, sending civilians toward IDF positions to gauge the response. Because they've learned that kidnapping works.
The question Israel must now answer is the same one it has been avoiding for years: do you return to the failed strategy of containment and management — the model that made October 7th possible — or do you finally draw a new red line?
The Gilad Shalit deal of 2011 directly enabled October 7th. That is not an emotional statement. It is a strategic one. Israel is the only country on earth where this specific tension — between the individual and the collective — could determine the survival of the nation itself.
This is the moment. What will Israel do?
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Is AI Antisemitic? The Data Says Yes — and It's Getting Worse
Teaser: If you're in the pro-Israel space and feeling censored online — it's not in your head.
A report by the American Security Fund confirmed what many have experienced firsthand: AI systems disproportionately target Jewish and pro-Israel content. Coordinated manipulation of Wikipedia and AI training data has created what researchers call "backdoor vulnerabilities" — weaponizing artificial intelligence for antisemitic propaganda.
The numbers are stark. A 316% rise in antisemitic incidents since October 7th. Testing of GPT-4o showing the highest rate of severely harmful content about Jews of any demographic group. An 8,000-member Discord group making over two million edits to Israel-related Wikipedia articles — controlling up to 90% of content in some cases.
And terrorist organizations are using AI to generate what researchers call "target identification packages" featuring Jewish centers in major U.S. cities.
This is not a future problem. It is happening right now.
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Where Did the Word "Antisemitism" Come From — And Why It Still Matters Today
Teaser: The word "antisemitism" is everywhere right now. But almost nobody knows where it actually came from — or what its origins reveal about the world we're living in today.
It was coined in 1879 by a German journalist named Wilhelm Marr — not to describe religious hatred of Jews, which had existed for centuries, but to give a name to something new: a racial and political hostility. A formalized, ideological hatred. The fact that someone felt the need to invent a word for it tells you everything.
Then came the Dreyfus Affair. A Jewish French army officer falsely convicted of treason. An Austrian journalist named Theodor Herzl watched it unfold — and concluded that Jewish assimilation had failed. That no amount of integration, achievement, or loyalty would ever be enough.
His response was Zionism.
The line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism was never as thin as people pretend. History drew it first.
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Why Jewish Parents Must Bring Yiddishkeit Into Their Children's Lives — Before It's Too Late
Teaser: We live in a world where antisemitism is surging, Jewish identity is under attack on campuses, and the pressure to assimilate has never been greater. And yet so many Jewish parents are still asking — how Jewish is Jewish enough?
Here's the answer: when Jewish parents don't raise their children in a Jewish way, they are depriving them of a sense of self, a place in the world, and the resilience that comes from living with a higher purpose.
We take our kids everywhere on vacation. But how many of us have taken them to Israel? We enroll them in every activity imaginable. But do they know Hebrew? Do they know their history? Do they know why it matters?
Judaism teaches us how to think critically, how to ask questions, how to challenge. Without passing that on — how do we expect them to carry the torch?
The holidays are the moment. Find your something more.
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Elul, Empty Nests, and the Weight of Being Jewish Right Now
Teaser: Elul has always been a season of transitions — new school year, new beginnings, the approach of Rosh Hashanah. A time to reflect, recalibrate, and recommit.
But this Elul hit differently.
A summer of family illness, cancelled trips, and the slow, bittersweet reality of sending a first child off to college — all of it layered on top of what it means to be a Jew in the world right now. The fear that doesn't fully go away. The Holocaust trauma that lives in the body. The heart that yearns for Israel while the life that matters most is here.
And underneath all of it — the question so many Jewish parents are carrying quietly: what kind of world are we sending our children into?
This is an honest piece about that question. And about why Elul, more than ever, is the time to find your righteous path.
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