Letters to the editor: May 20
Not in line with Jewish ideas
In a piece in last week’s JT, Yaakov Menken cherrypicks — deforms, actually — Jewish texts to place them...
Political self-preservation
The recent return of the Ra’am Islamic party to Israel’s precariously balanced government shows just how significantly political self-preservation motivates the members of the...
Collective punishment for looking Jewish
We struggle to contain our indignation. The story is upsetting. The video is chilling. The apology was milquetoast. Lufthansa Airlines blew it. But very...
Parshat Emor: The significance of special times
By Lilly Warren
In Emor, it talks about the Jewish holidays and how they are all different from each other. The holidays are so special...
Opinion | Emotional health an issue for everyone
By Paula Goldstein
When COVID hit in 2020, the collective trauma over this mysterious illness led to a rise in what was already a serious...
Opinion | It’s time to turn the Palestinian mindset against terrorism
By Dan Schueftan
Palestinian terrorism, both among Israeli Arabs and from the West Bank Palestinians, derives to a large extent from the erosion of deterrence...
Opinion | The Torah is unequivocally pro-life
By Rabbi Yaakov Menken
A great deal of misinformation has been shared regarding abortion, much of it coming, of course, in the wake of a...
Opinion | The future is our past unless we act now
By Barbara Goldberg Goldman
In January 1973, Carly Simon, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Roberta Flack and the O’Jays earned their first Billboard number-one songs. We...
Letters to the editor: May 13
Twitter hypocrisy
The hypocrisy of the Jewish Times and other left-wing political media is in full view as they panic over the possibility that opinions...
Russia’s blood libel
Like the rest of the Western world, Israel wants to support Ukraine in its fight to defend its democracy and right to self-determination against...
