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...
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...
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...
Opinion | My zadie, Holocaust survivor and master shochet
By Jeremy Diamond
Rev. Irvin (Isaac Leib) Stern was born on March 3, 1927. He was the oldest child to Chantza and Yisroel Dov Stern....
Parshat Nasso: Today’s messengers
By Gavin Adler
This week’s Haftorah is from the book of Judges. It is about the birth of Samson. In the Haftorah, we read that...
Letters to the editor: May 21
A must-read story of survival
Jesse Berman’s feature story on Ida Schmidt-Chait’s survival during the Holocaust and the dedication of the new Ringelblum Archive memorial...
Politics, religion and Pew
Everyone knows that in order to keep peace in polite company, religion and politics should be avoided. But the two are intertwined in the...
The fires within
The fires within
Israel’s Operation Guardian of the Walls is the kind of military operation with which we are very familiar. The country is under...
Opinion | Now is exactly the right time to talk about building a better...
By Leah Solomon
For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still. – Isaiah 62:1
As...
Parshat Bamidbar: The power of forgiveness
By Summer Friedman
This week’s haftarah comes from the Book of Hosea, and it focuses on the importance of forgiveness.
The haftarah talks about how the...