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...
The ignominy of Afghanistan
As we watch the ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan, we wonder: What did the U.S. government think would happen when it withdrew troops and government...
Opinion | Remembering Irving Joseph Abramowitz
By Alan A. and Janet M. Abramowitz
Our father and father-in-law, Irving Joseph Abramowitz, a World War II veteran and Baltimore City native, died of...
Opinion | Time to take a page from Silicon Valley and disrupt antisemitism
By Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman and Belle Etra Yoeli
We met as bright-eyed junior staffers working at American Jewish Committee’s office in Washington, D.C., six years...
