A vaccine for kids
Last week, we learned that after months of clinical trials, Pfizer determined that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for children between the...
Iron Dome can’t protect against Israel-haters
The Israel-haters among progressive Democrats are giving progressives a bad name.
We try not to overuse the accusation of antisemitism. But how else does one...
Opinion | Simchat Torah renews our ability to tell Genesis’ 2 creation stories
By Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career they chose, how...
Opinion | No one lost their last name at Ellis Island, but we gained...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Shortly before he died, my dad gave me a trove of family documents, some dating to the 19th century. For the first...
Sukkot: Protection and comfort in the sukkah
By Liba Schwartz
In Leviticus 23:42, we are commanded to dwell in sukkot (booths) so that future generations may know that God made the Israelites...
Opinion | Building and rebuilding community
By Lisa Klig
Over the past year and a half, we have all had to dig deep within ourselves to find new ways to remain...
The Abraham Accords a year later
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, which established normal relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain,...
The limits of a fragile coalition
We are intrigued by the experiment in governance being pursued by the eight-party coalition that currently runs the State of Israel. It is the...
Letters to the editor: Sept. 24
Trump at fault in Afghanistan
The Sept. 10 issue’s letter, “Time for Biden to go,” is an example of revisionist history. Former President Donald Trump...
Opinion | If you spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’
By Kenneth L. Marcus
Deborah Lipstadt, recently named by President Joe Biden as the U.S. Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, won’t just combat...