Don’t mess with donor-advised funds
Donor-advised funds (DAF) have been around for nearly a century. They are accounts created by individuals at a sponsoring organization — usually a public...
A genocide on our watch
At their recent meeting, leaders of the Group of Seven issued a call to China to “respect human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Chief among...
Opinion | Peace a dream until Palestinians accept Israel’s legitimacy
By Curtis Pontz
Was Israel justifiably and justly created as the place to which the Jewish people were able to return in 1948 to re-establish...
Opinion | The comeback begins
By Jeremy J. Fingerman
I can’t believe we have finally arrived at this special time — the reopening of summer camps and the rebuilding of...
Parshat Chukat: Moses’ big mistake
By Cantor Nancy Ginsberg
Parshat Chukat has one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd, who has led...
Opinion | What Bennett can learn from Biden, and vice versa
By Dan Schnur
As Israelis take their first tentative and raucous steps into a post-Netanyahu era, the most frequently asked question is how long a...
Letters to the editor: June 18
The real situation at colleges
It’s past time to quash the Big Lie. And it’s also time to squash the littler lies and stereotypes that...
Benjamin Netanyahu
After his historic 12 years as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s legacy begins with two words: It’s complicated. But whatever your view of the...
Moral certainty and ‘truth’
It is disturbing that today’s public disagreement has moved from engagement, debate and reasoned argument, to more confrontational, accusatory and finger-pointing expressions of anger,...
Opinion | Here’s what Yiddish writers can teach us about Tulsa and beyond
By Jessica Kirzane
My grandpa once told me a story about when my great-grandparents were on a steamship emigrating from Ukraine to Cuba in the...