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I have three kids. At one point, all of them were teenagers. Now, they’re almost adults. None of them attended Toronto’s only Jewish high school. Like most Jewish parents, I assumed the kids would follow some predictable path through the institutional Jewish education...

As we stand at the threshold of another year, I find myself thinking about possibilities. In our tradition, every moment offers the chance for teshuvah, which involves return, renewal, and, ultimately, transformation. This feels particularly urgent now, during what...

Last week, I argued that disagreements over Israel and Zionism threaten to fracture the Jewish community more profoundly than any external threat in our history. But within this crisis lies an opportunity.  We can rediscover what unites us through the transformative...