Miriam from Philadelphia told Anna during their conversation:
“I’ve seen so much brokenness in my life. When my father left, our family felt like it was held together by threads. It was painful, but I learned that small acts - like making dinner, listening, or being truly present in hard moments - can hold the pieces together. It’s what gave me hope when everything else seemed to fall apart.”

Listening to her, Anna recognized that Miriam’s story embodied the essence of Tikkun Olam, the Jewish teaching of repairing the world. In this tradition, brokenness is not an ending but a call to action. Every act of care, however small, helps mend the fracture and reveals something sacred, even within pain.

She suggested the words from the Aleinu prayer: לתקן עולם במלכות שדי — to repair the world under the sovereignty of God. The addition במלכות שדי, “under the sovereignty of God,” grounds this vision in humility, reminding us that healing does not depend solely on human strength but rests within divine order.

It carries both mystical and moral weight — an encouragement to act, balanced by reverence for something greater — a prayer and a task to help make the world, and ourselves, whole again.

Rebecca is a dancer in New York.

After October 7, she stopped dancing.

I started drawing Hebrew letters when I was five.

But what does that have to do with Nazis in Munich, the time I met Igor in solitary confinement in an Israeli military prison, and a really weird rabbinical heiter?

Welcome to the first episode of our podcast!

Today, we’re excited to share a recent project. Adam, a psychology professor from the US, came to us with a deeply personal dilemma. It brought to mind the story of Jonah and the whale, only with an unexpected twist.

An attempt to answer one of the questions I am frequently asked: "so what inspires you?"

The question “but did anyone else ever do this or ever think of this or ever want this or feel this and what does that say about me as a person?” seems to hunt some of us to a point where a productive contemplation of a project sometimes becomes hard to maintain. 

I think we might be better off letting go of that question.

Why we're overly fixated and rigid about your gender, even though last time we checked we were not your obnoxious redneck uncle.

Amsterdam and the last 13 month left me tired.

A few thoughts about Jewish visibility and how it influences our self perception and collective identity.

A few thoughts about why Jewish tattooing is definitely cultural appropriation. And why that's a misleading claim. And why William Shakespeare is pissed, ever since 1961.

A few thoughts about tattoo of the word "Timshel", John Steinbeck's Hebrew skills and authenticity in translation.

A few thoughts about the Venice Biennale and how diversity is becoming an oppressive, limiting discourse.

A few thoughts about one of my favourite topics: the Diaspora as a mental state. Being an immigrant. Distances within ourselves.

After recently reading a book by Daniel Boyarín, something shifted me. Something I wish had shifted years ago.

The way we tell our stories is the way weunderstand ourselves. But what if stories disappear from our lives?

A few thoughts about why Jewish tattooing is definitely a sin... and still probably a good idea.

So what is that Freedom we’ll be celebrating in a few days? A different reading of the question that probably has a different answer, each generation.

I like to start conceptualizing any tattoo project by considering its placement. Here is why.

A few thoughts and guidelines for you, if you are looking for a calligraphy cover up tattoo

How Israeli automatisms I was sure I had overcome got their sticky fingers on me, on October 7

Bin ich jetzt zum Nazi geworden... oder was?