Opinion | The here and now of Holocaust remembrance
By Ruthie Blum
It is of tragic relevance that anti-Jewish Arab riots, rocket fire and hate-filled solidarity protests around the world upstaged the lead-up to...
Opinion | Ukrainian Jews, come to Israel!
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
We have tremendous admiration and appreciation for the dozens of organizations working to rescue Jews from Ukraine. Words cannot...
Opinion | Passover 2022: Are Jews still people of the book?
By Samuel J. Abrams
April 15 marked the beginning of Passover. The centerpiece of this festival is the seder. The seder meal often takes hours,...
Opinion | The themes of Passover tie our struggles to those of Ukrainian Jews
By Shuly Rubin Schwartz
Exactly 100 years ago, in April 1922, my great-grandparents emigrated to the United States with their four children, fearing for their...
Opinion | Let’s talk about the freedom to live in security
By Julie Platt
It wasn’t until Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker heard the click of the gun that he realized something terrible was happening at Temple Beth...
Interests, not friends
The political adage that there are no permanent friends, only interests, rings true in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, once the focus of American...
The battle over Title 42
Title 42 is a federal health order that was issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Trump administration, which...
Letters to the editor: April 22
The left’s zero-sum game
“Bills attacking LGBTQ rights are an assault on Jewish values” (March 25) is yet another example of the left’s zero-sum game....
Passover: Renewed and new meanings
Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner
What do you remember most vividly about your earliest seder experience?
Many of us have memories of our respective Passover experiences with...
Opinion | Next year in Kharkiv
By Tanya Borodina
I want to share my story: Maybe it will inspire someone, maybe it will upset someone. I have an ordinary family: me,...