Mar 31, 2026 | Eshel Out Loud
As an infant, Moshe was bundled up and sent down the Nile in a tiny raft. Yocheved gave him up, still in vital danger, but spared from certain death at home as a Hebrew boy. When he was found by Pharoah’s daughter, she recognized that he was a Hebrew baby - based on his circumcision, [more]
Jan 22, 2026 | Eshel in the News
by Nadine Epstein As a teenager in West Hempstead, NY, on Long Island, Oliver Paneth loved spending time at their family’s shul and was a popular babysitter in the Orthodox community. They also attended Yeshiva University High School for Girls in Queens. “I was never the girlie girl, I was way more into sports,” recalls [more]
Nov 19, 2025 | Eshel Out Loud
As Jews, we know the dangers that come from dehumanizing rhetoric. For thousands of years, antisemitism has flourished by asserting that we are less human, somehow other than the rest of the world. When people view us as animals, or a plague, or an infestation, it is easy for those in power to argue that [more]
Aug 19, 2025 | Eshel in the News
By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Ziva Mann remembers how joyful and smiley her daughter was as a child — the family even gave her the nickname “Giggles.” “She was just sunshine,” Mann said. That changed around second grade, when her joy began to fade. “She got sadder and sadder,” Mann recalled. “It was like watching someone disappear.” [more]
Apr 28, 2025 | Eshel Out Loud
The world is changing rapidly. And so we, too, must change. Judaism teaches us the concept of tikkun olam: the responsibility to improve a broken world. Buddhism teaches us that human suffering comes from a refusal to accept what currently is. So which is it: do we accept that things just are the way they [more]
