Mira Sucharov

Psychoactive, a group of Israeli mental health professionals, seeks to increase awareness around topics that are often seen as taboo, such as the mental health effects of occupation on Israeli soldiers and the psychological barriers to peace.

Moments of hypocrisy may tell us something about a person, but they say nothing about the issue at hand: If you are contemptuous of Hawking’s decision to boycott, what alternative to ending the occupation are you proposing?

With a West Bank Palestinian having been sentenced Thursday to 98 years for throwing a stone that caused Asher Palmer and his infant son to die in a fatal car crash, the issue of Palestinian resistance to occupation has again been thrust into the spotlight.

The conference organizers have lined up a top-flight array of speakers, including the transgender memoirist and poet Joy Ladin and Jay Michaelson.

Vaster exploration of religious Zionism may certainly have its value, but to what extent can responsible governance be wrapped up in the scrolls of ancient texts?

The question of long-term vitality of Judaism may ultimately come down to the question of relevance and whether Orthodox Jews are seen more as keepers of the faith or gatekeepers of the faith.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind's choice of Purim costume represented a basic inability to listen to the experiences of the African-American community, whose history, like that of the Jews, is plagued with persecution.

Valentine’s Day presents a perfect admixture of opportunity and challenge when it comes to being Jewish in North America.

A scene several minutes into the movie transports this writer back to the days of her youth, to Zionist summer camp.

Two new videos, one a call for action and the other for restraint, both represent an essential of knowing how and when to use the natural gifts we were each given.

Three North American organizations to conduct parallel protest by delivering letter protesting building plans to Israeli embassy in Washington.

For two of the individuals, their gender represents an intrinsic part of their impact; the third is a story of simply humanity and the physical limits by which we are bound.

Hanukkah is as good a time as any to start a discussion about the kinds of strategic thinking that animates the art of war, and ultimately, the kind of prudence and pragmatism at the heart of peace.

After a night spent at a David Broza concert in Ottawa, Mira Sucharov says that it's time for Jews in the Diaspora to do more than just listen to Israeli peace songs.

To mark Transgender Week of Awareness, Mira Sucharov contacted Joy Ladin, poet, writer and professor at Yeshiva University’s Stern College, and author of Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders.

Here in Canada, I can bring my tallit to an Orthodox shul with no fear of arrest. If only Israeli women were so lucky.

Many committed Diaspora Jews relish the ability to ask curious questions of our Israeli cousins. As yet another set of Israeli elections approaches, we can only marvel as the answers are being worked out before our very eyes.

This week Debra Karby made the biggest 'ask' of her life. Faced with death by Sarcoma, a rare form of aggressive cancer in her liver, Debra is asking for a live liver donor. Her heartfelt plea, posted on Facebook, has since gone viral.

Thoughts on the premier of 'My So-Called Enemy,' a documentary bringing viewers into the lives of six teenage girls from Israel and Palestine.

A High Holy Day's look at the incredible shrinking tent of Diaspora dialogue.

This Rosh Hashanah, let’s whisper not only the many sweet nothings we’re moved to utter when we think about the Tel Aviv surf, the sun glinting off the Jerusalem stones, the music of Shlomo Artzi and Idan Raichel, and the heady kibbutz memories that many of us treasure, but also the hard truths that need to be told.

The creators of the new Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews website hope to invoke serious political debate against the background of the Jewish experience.

How Internet-meme campaigns are reshaping Jewish discourse in Israel and beyond.

Hamlisch taught us that beauty can be discovered if we shut our eyes and listen closely.

The Palestinian refusal to support a moment of silence for the 11 slain Israeli athletes from the 1972 Munich Olympics under grounds that it is 'racist' prompts laughter of the tragic sort.