Parshat Bo: The Persistence of God and Pharaoh
By Mara Forman
This week’s Torah portion is Bo. I find the story of Bo fascinating. When I originally read my Torah portion, the conflict...
Parshat Va’era: Googling God
By Rabbi Gila Colman Ruskin
Even before we met, it would be relatively easy to find out who you are.
I could look at your social...
The Houthis and the Axis of Resistance
The waves of the war between Israel and Hamas have reached the Red Sea. It is there that the Houthis, an extremist Shia-Islamist movement...
Harvard’s Time of Reckoning
Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, couldn’t leave bad enough alone.
After the shortest presidential tenure in Harvard’s storied history — having been...
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
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...
