The Manchin Factor
Last week’s announcement by Sen. Joe Manchin that he won’t run for another term in West Virginia — and will, instead, travel the country...
Parshat Chayei Sarah: The Next Generation
By Rabbi Joanne Yocheved Heiligman
Chayei Sarah opens, “The life of Sarah was 100 years, and 20 years, and 7 years, were the years of...
Another Pandemic?
Mindy Sager Dickler
Ah, remember the “good old days” around three years ago?
We were all dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. We’d never known that the...
The Spiritual Risks of Lingering in the Place of our Pain
By Rabbi Irwin Keller
How often have I sat in my tears over these last weeks? How many minutes have I spent in the ruins...
A Letter to the Rest of the World
By Ben Cohen
As odd as it may seem for me to be addressing all 8 billion of you, what I have to say is...
The Rising Death Toll in Gaza Is Tragic But It Is Not Genocide
By David Lee Preston
Up in Broome County, New York, beneath a simple marker in a family plot in Hale Eddy Cemetery, I believe the...
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 10
Sad Chapter in History
I look forward to watching filmmaker Jennifer Podemski’s PBS “Little Bird” documentary based, in part, on her family story of forcible...
Antisemitism in America
The statistics are mind-numbing. ADL reports that antisemitic events in the U.S. have increased nearly 400% since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct....
War is Hell
Fighting a war is not the best way to resolve disputes. But there are certain situations in which fighting a war is the only...
Journalists Need Support to Get the Mideast Story Right
By Rebecca Dinar
At the end of last summer, Ron Kampeas, the seasoned Jewish Telegraphic Agency reporter, shared his experience reporting on the Tree of...