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Shmuel Munitz

שלמה אפרתי במחנה שורה
‘I carried God in my pocket’: Reservist who identified Oct. 7 victims recounts horrors
Shlomo Efrati helped identify massacre victims and prepare fallen IDF soldiers for burial; in a searing poetic diary, he writes of mutilated bodies, endless triggers, his struggle with God and a terrorist’s body mistakenly brought to his unit
Shmuel Munitz | 10.08.26
קבורה רוויה בהר המנוחות ירושלים
1 in 8 Israeli Jews would rather not be buried at all, survey finds
Nearly 90% say they would observe shiva after losing an immediate relative, including 74% of secular respondents; 71% say a traditional Jewish funeral matters to them, 86% visit graves after shiva or shloshim, and just 2% prefer high-density burial
Shmuel Munitz | 09.23.26
תגובה אנטישמית על פוסט בנוגע ל-11/9, עם הטענה שהיהודים ביצעו את המתקפה ושמדובר במבצע של המוסד
'Young people are seeing complete lunacy': 25 years after 9/11, antisemitic conspiracy theories thrive online
False claims that Israel and Jews orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks are finding new audiences online, fueled by social media, coded hate and gaps in education
Shmuel Munitz | 09.18.26
גשם בתל אביב
The Hebrew calendar’s Babylonian secret: How gods and weather named the Jewish months
Tammuz was a Mesopotamian fertility god, Adar may have meant gloomy and several familiar month names came from Akkadian after the Babylonian exile; rabbis later found distinctly Jewish meanings for the foreign names
Shmuel Munitz | 09.13.26
הרב שלמה קרליבך
Beyond the music: Why Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach should no longer be revered as a saint
A boycott of Carlebach’s songs may be unrealistic, but religious communities cannot continue depicting him as a saint while ignoring the women who accused him of sexual abuse, allegations revisited in the documentary ‘The Darkest Light’ 
Shmuel Munitz | 08.06.26
אור אלחרר שפילמן עם יותם
Widowed at 26, she found love again with her late husband’s fellow officer
After Maj. Itamar Elharar was killed in a 2022 friendly-fire incident, Or struggled to imagine marrying again. Then she met Yotam, who had served with him in the Egoz unit, and discovered that remembrance and new love could exist side by side
Shmuel Munitz | 07.29.26
BDSM in the religious world: couples, singles and rabbis confront a silent taboo
In conservative religious circles, BDSM is rarely discussed, leaving many to navigate desire, shame and relationships alone; a married couple, a single religious woman, a Jewish mysticism scholar and therapists describe a hidden world where faith and alternative sexuality often collide
Shmuel Munitz | 06.12.26
אישה ברחבת הכותל המערבי בירושלים, 1968
The Western Wall was once a national symbol for all Israelis; What changed?
After the Six-Day War, the Western Wall became a national symbol for Israelis of all backgrounds, but its transfer to religious authorities and the introduction of gender separation gradually turned it into an ultra-Orthodox space
Shmuel Munitz | 05.19.26
ישיבת פוניבז' בבני ברק
‘Kabbalah is one of the greatest disasters to befall Judaism and Israel’
Dr. Israel Netanel Rubin, a scholar of Jewish thought, calls Kabbalah texts ‘delusions’ and ‘nonsense,’ labels top ultra-Orthodox rabbis ‘fools’ and describes the Zohar as an ‘erotic novel’
Shmuel Munitz | 04.25.26
שאול מנסה להרוג את דוד – תחריט של גוסטב דורה
From Saul's rage to Jonah's despair: The mental crises of biblical heroes
The prophets who wanted to die, the barren women who felt there was no living without children, the poet who wrote about anxiety, and the Babylonian king who behaved like an animal: the Bible does not shy away from dealing with complex mental states; What can biblical stories teach us about coping?
Shmuel Munitz | 04.21.26
חציית המצה לשניים במהלך הסדר
What to do if there is a siren during the Seder? Questions of Jewish law for Passover
How do you prepare your home for Passover when your spouse is in the reserves? Should you repeat kiddush if an air-raid siren goes off during the telling of the Exodus story? Against the backdrop of the war against Iran, rabbis answer some important questions
Shmuel Munitz, Itzchak Tessler | 03.31.26
אריה אסייתי. רק מאות פרטים שרדו בטבע, בפארק הלאומי יער גיר במדינת גוג'ראט בהודו
From ancient Israel to modern Iran: the enduring symbolism of the lion
Though the Asiatic lion vanished from Israel centuries ago and from Iran decades ago, its powerful legacy endures in both cultures — from the Bible to today’s Iranian regime opponents
Shmuel Munitz | 03.06.26
קריאת מגילת אסתר בבני ברק, ארכיון
This is how to observe Purim during war
How do you read Megillah in the middle of sirens? Can you fulfill the mitzvah of reading the Megillah alone? Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon answers halachic questions, recommends being more careful than ever not to get too drunk, and suggests: 'Give gifts of food to to those who need reinforcement'
Shilo Freid, Shmuel Munitz | 03.02.26
מתוך סדרת התצלומים. שהם שושנה אור ישראל מימין
Through the lens: the settler girls building Zionism’s next chapter
In a remote West Bank outpost, teenage settler girls live without smartphones or schools, working the land and documenting what they saw as the next chapter of Zionism; five-year photo project captures their vision of history in the making
Shmuel Munitz | 02.01.26
פנינה בן יוסף
She survived the Holocaust and Oct. 7: 'I was hiding with a handgun and a broken leg'
Penina Ben Yosef, who survived the Holocaust and the Hamas attack on southern Israel, describes hunger, flight and fear, from wartime Europe to sitting injured in a safe room as terrorists closed in
Itamar Eichner, Shmuel Munitz | 01.27.26
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