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