Opinion | No one lost their last name at Ellis Island, but we gained...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Shortly before he died, my dad gave me a trove of family documents, some dating to the 19th century. For the first...
Sukkot: Protection and comfort in the sukkah
By Liba Schwartz
In Leviticus 23:42, we are commanded to dwell in sukkot (booths) so that future generations may know that God made the Israelites...
Opinion | Building and rebuilding community
By Lisa Klig
Over the past year and a half, we have all had to dig deep within ourselves to find new ways to remain...
The Abraham Accords a year later
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, which established normal relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain,...
The limits of a fragile coalition
We are intrigued by the experiment in governance being pursued by the eight-party coalition that currently runs the State of Israel. It is the...
Letters to the editor: Sept. 24
Trump at fault in Afghanistan
The Sept. 10 issue’s letter, “Time for Biden to go,” is an example of revisionist history. Former President Donald Trump...
Opinion | If you spell it ‘antisemitism,’ then remove the hyphen from ‘anti-Zionism’
By Kenneth L. Marcus
Deborah Lipstadt, recently named by President Joe Biden as the U.S. Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, won’t just combat...
Opinion | The story of an unknown great Jewish hero of WWII
By Dr. Michael Matsas
In October 1940, large Italian forces suddenly invaded Greece from Albania. The newspapers kept informing us of a “strategic retreat” until...
Letters to the editor: Sept. 17
Maryland leads in protecting bees
Thank you for your article “The state of our bees” in the Sept. 3 edition, in which the JT discusses...
Nachman Shai is listening
In a recent JTA opinion piece under the headline “Has Israel let you down? Talk about it,” Nachman Shai, Israel’s new Minister for Diaspora...
