Opinion | Shmita can be a model for tackling climate change and inequality
By Sen. Meghan Kallman and Rabbi Lex Rofeberg
We are in an era of multiple interlocking crises. From record-breaking heat waves to wildfires to water...
Parshat Bereshit: Making a good first impression
By Tylor Massouda
My Torah reading is about the days of creation. This story is a familiar one and a symbolic one for many occasions....
Opinion | The only card Abbas has left
By Amnon Lord
The main subject of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas' address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was yet again the...
Letters to the editor: Oct. 1
No comparison to the Holocaust
There is no comparison to any event now or before, and hopefully I pray, there will never be a catastrophe...
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...
