Parshat Beshalach: Many Nachshons in history
By Rabbi Jennifer Weiner
Beshalach finds us standing at the proverbial shores of freedom. In this parshah, Moses tells the Israelites to gather their belongings....
Opinion | Too many chose to look away from Chaim Walder’s crimes
By Rahel Bayar
During my first month as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, I spent most of my time engaged in an intensive...
Opinion | Politics and combating antisemitism don’t mix
By Jonathan S. Tobin
At a time when antisemitism is on the rise around the globe, the office of the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy...
Letters to the editor: Jan. 14
False equivalency
Clifford D. May’s column “Biden’s weak defense of democracy” (Dec. 31, 2021) includes several items that are pure nonsense. The one that prompted...
The option of civil marriage
Late last year, something happened in the United Arab Emirates that never happened before in that Gulf state, yet it attracted little attention: A...
Elusive bipartisanship
A year after a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol in an attack that overwhelmed law enforcement, posed a threat to lawmakers debating the...
Opinion | My father is Catholic, but I’m a proud Polish Jew
By Marta Saracyn
This article was sponsored by the JDC.
I am a proud member of the Jewish community of Poland.
That may sound like a simple statement, but...
Parshat Bo: Rome is always burning
By Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein
Since I first read Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s “The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus,” Parshat Bo reminds me of her phrases,...
Opinion | Packing our parents in cotton wool
By Audrey Glickman
My friend Joy mentioned the idiom of packing our parents in cotton wool to protect them and keep them alive longer —...
Opinion | Coughing and limping into 2022
By Hannah S. Pressman
Just when we thought, foolishly, that it was safe to go outside — our lives slowly restored to normal, masks discarded,...