Opinion

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...
Curtis Pontz

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...
Two children in paddleboats on a lake.

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...
Cantor Nancy Ginsberg

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...
Dan Schnur

Opinion | What Bennett can learn from Biden, and vice versa

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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

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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,...
Jessica Kirzane

Opinion | Here’s what Yiddish writers can teach us about Tulsa and beyond

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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...