Opinion

Taryn Herlich

Opinion | Stop antisemitic gaslighting, online and everywhere else

By Taryn Herlich When we hear the term gaslighting, we often think of an abusive or unhealthy relationship. Typically the goal of the perpetrator is...
Douglas Altabef

Opinion | The 11th lost tribe

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By Douglas Altabef The recently updated Pew Research Center survey of American Jewry is notable for its data showing dramatic growth in the number of...
a measuring tape wrapped around different fruit

Opinion | Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice

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By Rabbi Minna Bromberg Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive? Stop telling fat people about...
Rabbi John Franken

Parshat Beha’alotcha: Embracing our diverse Jewish community

By Rabbi John Franken While encamped at Hazeroth, an unexpected family quarrel erupts among the children of Amram. Two of them (Miriam and Aaron) denounce...

Letters to the editor: May 28

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Hold universities accountable It’s outrageous that the real benefactors of the triple-digit billions of dollars of at-risk student loans are allowed to escape scot-free from...

Principle and courage under fire

The Holy Land is more than a nickname. It suggests that there is something intrinsically sacred in the land of Israel. And to defile...

Biden’s Middle East opportunity

President Joe Biden was right. Israel has an absolute right to defend itself. And the fact that Israel was largely protected by the Iron...
anti-semitism in the dictionary

Jewish Americans deserve hate crime protection too

By Dov S. Zakheim On Thursday, May 20, President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which had been passed overwhelmingly by both houses...
Dr. Janet S. Sunness

Opinion | The religious symbolism of the cicadas

By Dr. Janet S. Sunness We have entered the season of cicadas. When we had the last outbreak, in 2004, I asked myself what the...
encyclopedia

Opinion | We were a Compton’s Encyclopedia Jewish family

By Karen Galatz Jews are often called the People of the Book, a reference to our reverence for sacred writings, but in my nonobservant childhood...