Opinion

Jay Bernstein

Destruction and Inspiration: Notes on a Mission to Israel

By Jay Bernstein Imagine taking a tour of the Warsaw Ghetto a few months after the its destruction by the Nazis in 1943, or viewing...

Parshat Shemot: Asking for Help Is a Miracle

By Rabbi Jennifer R. Greenspan One not so special morning, Pharaoh’s daughter wakes up in the morning, ready for her daily bath. I imagine her...

Letters to the Editor: Jan. 5

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Ugly Polarization Particularly with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, current and past, one can observe widespread ideological/political partisanship via news and commentary (“American Jews Face Long-Term Threat...

The Deadly War of Words and Deeds

Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are engaged in a deadly war of words and artillery exchanges as the two trade fire and...

Festering Border Problems

The mounting migrant problems on the United States’ southern border present increasing challenges to border states and to “sanctuary cities” across America that have...

A Consequential Ruling from Israel’s High Court

Late on Jan. 1, Israel’s highest court struck down a controversial judicial overhaul law enacted last year by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that...
Rabbi Craig Axler

Parshat Vayechi: The Bond of Love

By Rabbi Craig Axler As we conclude the book of Genesis this Shabbat, the stories we’ve been following since Simchat Torah have been filled with...

The Cycle of Trust

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By Steve Rosenberg A saying often attributed to Albert Einstein states, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and...
Amy Neustein

Why Was the International Community Slow to Condemn the Rape of Israelis?

Amy Neustein Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on Dec. 10 that “the sexual violence that we...
Juliana Geran Pilon

Anti-Zionism and the Bolshevik Jihad

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By Juliana Geran Pilon No ideology has persisted longer than antisemitism. With their stubborn insistence on maintaining their traditions, Jews have been mistrusted and persecuted...