At a rate of 1 million shots a day, the US may not hit herd immunity until as late as next year. At 1.5 million, the campaign could drag into the fall and possibly winter.

It might be better for the administration politically to set expectations low so it can wildly exceed them — and I hope that’s the case — but how does that benefit the country? Besides, a year into the pandemic, the country could use a morale boost.

The vaccines we have are probably still effective enough to keep even the South African strain at bay. But they make vaccination even more urgent than it seemed during the election…

And so we have to demand that the Biden administration aim stronger, higher, faster. Now.

When we discuss the Holocaust only through the lessons that it can teach us, we turn it into a metaphor. The Holocaust should be taught as a specific event — understood within political, geographical and sociological contexts.

The Holocaust is being forgotten by the youngest among us… That fact is not surprising. There is an insidious surge in Holocaust remembrance-shaming, hidden under the veil of “Holocaust exploitation,” and perpetuated by the delicate yet ironically despotic sensibilities of those who want to shame World War II collective consciousness into historical oblivion.

…what if the emphasis on teaching about the Shoah is a mistake with respect to the Jewish community’s priorities, in addition to the assumption that it will combat anti-Semitism?

We cannot discuss how this came about without mentioning the role of the media’s hegemony in fanning the flames and pushing for violence. Last week provided an excellent civics lesson on the power of the media to lead dramatic processes in Israeli society and tear it apart.

There is an urgent need to heal the relationship between the Haredim and the state. To do so, Netanyahu must be replaced, because he promises the continued capitulation to Haredi blackmail, even at the cost of human lives.

By refusing to close their schools, they put their own students, their families and friends, and the rest of us in danger. When the police try to enforce the regulations they are physically attacked and called Nazis and worse… this behavior is seen on television by Israelis and by the rest of the world. The Chillul Hashem — the desecration of God’s name — is beyond description.

Maybe we don’t need to rush to draw lessons from dark episodes in our fragile lives. A human earthquake hit Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 26, that many of us will long remember, each for our own reasons.

He believed, like Nelson Mandela whom he quoted in an Instagram post in 2014, that “sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.

Kobe Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter was a rising youth star, often seen court-side immersed in the action at Lakers games. Better known as Gigi, she was the second-oldest of the Bryants’ four children. Her mother, Vanessa Bryant, delivered a heartbreaking tribute to her at a Staples Center memorial for the crash victims.

Siwa doesn’t owe us a single thing, but as I approach my thirties, I’m deeply grateful to her anyway; watching her claim space for her queerness while simultaneously refusing to capitulate to the world’s demands for constant disclosure makes me feel for the first time like any children I might be lucky enough to bring into the world could end up being encouraged to define themselves based on what feels right, rather than what’s expected.

The composition of Siwa’s fanbase, mostly kids and their parents, means the moment is a giant leap for LGBTQ+ representation in family-oriented media, and according to queer therapists, may even help families be more accepting towards their queer children.

Siwa’s target audience is preteens and younger. That means many children will now see someone they look up to living their true queer selves and happy about it – something I never experienced as a child.

That Shakshuka brought me back to the many times my mother had made Shakshuka whenever she needed to serve us a quick, easy meal. She would warm generous amounts of her homemade matboucha in a large frying pan, then she would carefully place the eggs in the sauce.

If you’ve ever had the privilege of tasting Rachel’s Olive Chicken, you already know that it is lemony fresh and truly flavorful. Olive Chicken is a traditional Moroccan dish that is slowly simmered in a ceramic tagine. But since most of us don’t have tagines, Rachel has adapted the recipe with cooking techniques for the modern kitchen.

To this day, I can visualize the picture of Jacob stirring the pot of lentil soup over an open fire. A famished Esau comes in from a day of hunting in the fields, begging Jacob to sell him the soup. Jacob tells him that he will trade it for his birthright and Esau retorts “What is my birthright worth, if I die from hunger?”

Luckily, nowadays we don’t need to sell our birthright for a bowl of lentil soup, because we can easily whip up a big pot in our own kitchens.