Opinion

I Am a Single Rabbi Without Children … and I Shouldn’t Be Made to...

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Jessica Fisher | JTA I recently attended a bris in my community where the mohel announced to the new parents and the whole room, “Raising...

No, President Biden, the Synagogue Attack in Israel Did Not Target the ‘Civilized World’

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David Suissa | Jewish Journal via JNS We attach ourselves to narratives because they comfort us. It’s comforting to think that the terrorist who murdered...

Letters to the Editor: February 3

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Appreciate Issue Commemorating the Holocaust As a former associate director of the Baltimore Jewish Council with responsibility for annual Holocaust commemoration, I really appreciate the...

Parshat Beshalach: Moses Parts Sea, Enters Desert, Faces the Amalekites

In last week’s parshah, after years of the Jews’ enslavement and then the 10 plagues that G-d heaped upon the Egyptians, Pharaoh finally lets...

The Religious Accommodation Test

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against workers based on religion and other protected categories. That law...

Stop Wasting Valuable Time in the House

In the U.S. House of Representatives, Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar has been a provocative figure, particularly for many in the Jewish community. She is...

The Jew and the Nazi

Ruth Velder Although my father, Eli Velder, was a captivating storyteller, he didn’t talk much about his experiences in World War II. The few stories...

A Year After Colleyville, the Jewish Community Rethinks Security

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Julie Platt | JNS When Malik Faisal Akram, a British Pakistani terrorist, took four congregants hostage at a small-town Texas synagogue a year this month,...

Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab World Has Its Pitfalls

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Lyn Julius | JNS Good news from the Gulf: The United Arab Emirates will teach about the Holocaust in its schools. It is only right...

Searching for My Romanian Roots

Roberta M. Ward Since I was very young, I knew that my father was born in Jassy, Romania, the historical name of Romania’s second-largest city,...