Opinion

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...
Rev. Irvin (Isaac Leib) Stern

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....
Gavin Adler

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

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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...
Leah Solomon

Opinion | Now is exactly the right time to talk about building a better...

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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...
Summer Friedman

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...