Opinion

Casey Silverman

Parshat Nasso: Strength in community

By Casey Silverman This week’s Torah portion, Nasso, is about commitment to community. A lot of my Torah portion talks about playing one of...
Mark Hotz

Opinion | Here’s why I’m a Zionist

By Mark Hotz One Sunday morning when I was about 9 years old, my Hebrew school class was ushered into a large room to watch...
Linda A. Hurwitz

Opinion | The year behind us, and the year that could lie ahead

By Linda A. Hurwitz Imagine you are sitting here a year ago, and I challenged you to forecast the future. How might you have responded? Would...
Jason Langsner

Opinion | In a millisecond in front of Israel’s president

By Jason Langsner Standing before Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, at his residence in Jerusalem, I paused. In a millisecond, while simultaneously taking a deep breath,...
Jonathan S. Tobin

Opinion | The only honest discussion about guns rests on the Second Amendment

By Jonathan S. Tobin The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, is just one more in a long succession of horrific examples of gun violence in America....
Elana Broitman

Opinion | Here’s how we can help 100,000 new Ukrainian refugees

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By Elana Broitman After my family and I escaped from Odessa in the mid-1970s, an awful feeling of statelessness settled upon me. Our family had...
Julia Blumberg

Parshat Bamidbar: Surviving adversity

By Julia Blumberg This week’s parshah is Bamidbar, which tells the story of our people’s exodus from Egypt and is focused on their 40 years...

A Plan B for Iran?

With President Joe Biden’s decision to keep Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the State Department list of terrorist organizations, the administration...

Mass murder continues

We have had enough. We struggle to find the right words. We simply cannot understand the insistence by gun advocates that civilians need access...

Letters to the editor: June 3

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Standing with the oppressed We as Jews must stand on the side of truth (“Where do Jews fit into critical race theory?” May 20). There...