Editorials

Deborah Lipstadt is a good first step

We applaud President Joe Biden’s announcement last week naming Deborah Lipstadt as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. The selection...

Beinart is wrong, again

We’ve had enough of Peter Beinart. There was a time where the contrarian views of the left-wing Jewish public intellectual were thought provoking. Beinart was...

Ben & Jerry’s meltdown

There is something about the joys of ice cream in the heat of summer. And until last week, very few of us thought that...

Vaccines save lives

We have come a very long way in the 17 months since COVID took over our lives. We have moved from fear, confusion, isolation,...

Shrink the conflict

Let’s be clear: Israel is not an apartheid state. And Israel is not committing genocide on the Palestinians. Nonetheless, a recent survey commissioned by...

An unexpected U.N. turn toward Israel

Since the historic founding of the state of Israel more than 73 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly has passed hundreds of resolutions...

The big tent of ‘No Fear’

Sunday’s “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People” at the National Mall was a welcome communal reaction to the disturbing rise...

Sadness in Surfside

The enormity of the tragic loss of lives and property in the haunting collapse of the 13-story Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Fla.,...

Ilhan Omar is a blight on the Democratic Party

We have had enough of the self-righteous, ill-informed and antisemitic rhetoric of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Democratic leadership in Congress needs to take meaningful...

The uncertain future of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs

For almost 80 years, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) has been an independent community relations umbrella organization committed to the development of...