Maryland legislative efforts to battle hate
Ari Mittleman | Special to the JT
This week three years ago, a Chanukah party in Monsey, N.Y., ended in horrific carnage. Fueled by a...
Why has Netanyahu’s coalition-making been so difficult?
Eran Lerman | The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune via JNS
A magical moment is recalled in a well-known Israeli song (sung by Yehudit Ravitz in 1979):...
Pan Am 103: Prisoners of hope
Rabbi Charles S. Sherman | Special to the JT
On Dec. 11, 2022, I awoke to the stunning news that the man accused of making...
Letters to the Editor: January 6
Disqualifier for future senators
Total silence on the GOP side that their would-be candidate to be Georgia’s senator, Herschel Walker, could not utter a single...
Trump’s tax returns
Late last month, following a successful multi-year battle over the right to see former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a House panel voted along...
Where is the progress on immigration
In a 5-4 ruling last week, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the lifting of a Trump-era Title 42 order on immigration, which left in...
Parshat Vayechi: Family comes first; indeed, it’s a blessing
By Ellie Glazer
In Parshat Vayechi, Jacob and Joseph are on their deathbeds. When Jacob eventually passes away, Joseph’s brothers are afraid that Joseph will...
Letters to the Editor: December 30
Pointing fingers at the wrong party obstructing peace in the Middle East
Michael Koplow’s column “Annexation by Any Other Name” (Opinions, Dec. 16) implies, without...
‘Do you want an answer, or do you want a hug?’
By Rabbi Gershon Schusterman
I was visiting one of my sons, Eliyahu, who was working as a rabbi in Atlanta. We were walking together one...
How fostering Jewish life would safeguard Malmö’s Jews Daniel Radomski
Bigotry anywhere is a grave injustice, yet it becomes all the more real to me when I hear about antisemitism in Sweden.
This nation, which...