Unity Begins Within: Preserving Peace and Our Shared Humanity
At a time when our world is experiencing division, uncertainty, and conflict, we must remember the values that connect us: unity, peace, compassion, and our shared humanity.
Ten areas of coverage, organized into five editorial article sections.
At a time when our world is experiencing division, uncertainty, and conflict, we must remember the values that connect us: unity, peace, compassion, and our shared humanity.
What is Humint? Where is Humint? Those were the questions running through my head as I picked up Jeffrey Sanow’s first book.
There is an extraordinary, transformative power in the way the human spirit holds onto history. We often think of memory as a static archive—a rigid record of events carved in stone.
In 2026, the world’s greatest challenge is not a lack of intelligence, technology, or resources. It is our ability to communicate across differences while preserving our shared humanity.
A meditation on why food carries the greeting in Jewish communities everywhere, from Abraham’s tent to a Berlin bakery to a Los Angeles Thanksgiving table.
The situation in Israel today must be understood first through the reality of national survival. Israel is a small democratic state in a hostile region, surrounded by terrorist organizations and regimes that have repeatedly declared, and acted upon, their desire to weaken or destroy it.
A look at how antisemitism persists in American life eight decades after the fall of the Third Reich, and what confronting it demands now.
Jewish history, collective memory, and cultural preservation.
Dr. Natalie Forest
Religious life, traditions, rituals, holidays, and religious movements.
Sima Azadegan
Education, scholarship, Jewish thought, ethics, and intellectual life.
Local and global Jewish communities, institutions, leadership, demographics, and communal development.
Literature, music, film, visual arts, media, food, language, and cultural expression.
Lesley Nase
Volunteering, social justice, nonprofits, and humanitarian work.
Dr. Lester Bailey
Antisemitism, civil rights, policy, and Jewish engagement in public life.
Jeffrey Sanow
Israel, Israel–Diaspora relations, and international Jewish life and connections.
Jeffrey Sanow
Relationships with non-Jewish communities, dialogue, coexistence, and civic partnerships.
Entrepreneurship, economic life, startups, and technological contributions.