Opinion

Confronting domestic abuse

During the past year, home has been a safe haven for most people. It was the comfortable refuge from the deadly pandemic, which predominantly...

Biden’s 100 day speech

President Joe Biden marked his 100th day in office last week with a nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress. He spoke...
Jonathan S. Tobin

Opinion | Does America’s Afghanistan pullout bode ill for Israel?

It turns out that there are some things on which President Joe Biden and his predecessor agree. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Biden’s decision to...
Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum

Pesach Sheni | The lessons of the Second Passover

By Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum On Monday we celebrated Pesach Sheni (the Second Passover). The first Passover sacrifice was brought in Egypt in the year 2448...
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Opinion | If rabbis can’t talk about public policy, what’s the point of Torah?

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By Rabbi Michael Rothbaum When do you call the rabbi? Sometimes to complain. (We’re Jews, after all.) But usually, a life-cycle event has taken place. A...

Letters to the editor: April 30

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Ready to return to shul I applaud the Jewish Times article “Lag B’Omer heralds cautious return to in-person events” (April 23). The synagogue to which...
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Opinion | Sorry, but Zoom Judaism just isn’t the real thing

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By Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel For more than a year now, synagogues around the world have managed to continue their activities during the COVID pandemic...

Resounding bipartisan support for Israel

In today’s combative political climate, amid mounting concerns of partisan posturing, there are few things on which most Democrats and Republicans agree. But a...

The gun problem

We face a mass shooting epidemic. And the cure is evasive. The recent burst of mass killing is upsetting. But it has been relegated to...
Zev Hurwitz

Opinion | In student governments, Jews and Zionists need not apply

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By Zev Hurwitz The story goes like this: A Jewish student is elected to the university’s student government. The student’s fitness for office is challenged by...