Parshat Nitzavim: To respect and honor others
By Ava Perlin
Parshat Nitzavim focuses on our covenant and relationship with God by instructing us to worship only God and setting forth the punishment...
Opinion | Rosh Hashanah: A time of renewal and unity
By Rabbi Elie Abadie
As Jews, every Rosh Hashanah, we rededicate our commitment to Judaism. We reaffirm our devotion to Jewish law, and we strive...
Opinion | What to remember when abuse stories break in Jewish communities
By Sheila Katz and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
We are, once again, in a season of reckoning with sexual abuse in the Jewish community and in...
Our newest immigrants
Governments are notoriously reluctant to admit mistakes. But sometimes the facts are so clear that no acknowledgment is necessary. Our withdrawal from Afghanistan is...
Rosh Hashanah 5782
5781 was challenging. But we got through it. In the process, we learned how to celebrate Shabbat and Jewish holidays remotely or in compliant...
Opinion | The fall of Kabul will bode well for American adversaries
By Maya Carlin
Bad actors are lining up to fill the vacuum in Afghanistan created by the U.S. withdrawal. Iran, Qatar, Russia and China are...
Opinion | 30 years of peacemaking helped put Crown Heights back together
By Eli Cohen
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Brooklyn last week, when my neighborhood came together for “One Crown Heights,” a day of...
Parshat Ki Tavo: Not comforting, but oh so true
By Rabbi Lawrence M. Pinsker
Fourteen years ago, New York journalist A.J. Jacobs’s book, “The Year of Living Biblically,” became a bestseller and eventually a...
Letters to the editor: Aug. 27
Divorce can be a good thing
In 2015, my life was falling apart. My entire family unit was imploding before my eyes. I received divorce...
The Biden-Bennett meeting
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett already know each other. Nonetheless, there will still be some element of the two leaders...