Opinion | My father’s lesson: Jews must value labor even when they become management
By Rabbi Rachel Timoner
Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none...
Student loan relief v. loan forgiveness
There is widespread concern about the crippling financial challenge to some 43 million Americans of their federal student loans. Proposals to deal with the...
Human Rights Watch should watch its words
There are many problems with Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) contention that in "certain areas” of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, Israel’s “deprivations”...
Letters to the editor: May 14
The status of our anti-bias bill
The bill S.B. 220/H.B. 128, requiring those convicted of hate crimes to undergo an education program created by the...
Parshat Behar-Bechukotai | Infusing holiness into our days
This week, we conclude the Book of Leviticus, whose aim is the establishment of holiness. Leviticus begins with a description of the sacrificial system...
Opinion | Mount Meron and Israel’s paradoxical nature
By Ruthie Blum
On Saturday night, as Tel Aviv’s City Hall lit up with the image of the Israeli flag to commemorate the dozens killed...
Opinion | What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?
By Gary Rosenblatt
When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away...
Opinion | ‘When the Dodgers left Brooklyn’
By Phil Jacobs
I was sitting in the rabbi’s office.
We were interviewing for a feature story.
He was Chasidic. He told me about his Brooklyn childhood,...
Letters to the editor: May 7
A serious mental health problem
Regarding “The Gun Problem” (April 30):
Mass shootings of victims varying from young schoolchildren to Asian Americans and Jews is symptomatic...
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...
