How the Trans and Anti-Israel Movements Merged
“One struggle. One fight!”
June 9, 2025
The Rabbi Who Escaped Soviet Uzbekistan to Build Up Jewish Miami
Sholom Lipskar, in memoriam.
Three years ago, Mosaic published an essay about the surprising vibrancy, and youth, of Jewish life in south Florida. One of the pioneers of this transformation, Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, died last week at the age of seventy-eight. A native of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Lipskar was smuggled into Poland by his parents when he was only twenty days old in a suitcase. In 1969, Lipskar was sent to Miami by the then-Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson:
June 9, 2025
Why Israel Is Working with an Anti-Hamas Palestinian Militia
Humanitarian aid, alliances, and the future of Gaza.
Reforming Campuses While Protecting Freedom of Speech and Scientific Progress
Sledgehammers at Harvard.
The Dead Sea Scrolls May Have Been Older Than Previously Thought
New research sheds light on literacy in ancient Judea.
The Rabbi Who Escaped Soviet Uzbekistan to Build Up Jewish Miami
Sholom Lipskar, in memoriam.