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Opinion: Much to Worry About

Martin Sherman Looking back over the last several decades, citizens of Israel will find much reason for grave concern over the aptitude of the country’s...

Editorial: Trump’s Greenland Fixation

President Donald Trump’s revived interest in acquiring Greenland has shifted from eccentric curiosity to something more unsettling. What once sounded like an off-hand provocation...

Opinion: A Walk Down Cypress Avenue

Amanda Yakobovits I walk past a ripped hostage poster. I stop in my tracks. I immediately see a street corner in Toronto: a lamppost left...

Editorial: Israel Comes of Age

Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel intends to phase out U.S. military aid over the next decade marks one of the most consequential — and...

Opinion: Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A False Conflation

Gerard Leval It has become common practice to distort language, twisting it to fit agendas and priorities. Such a misuse of words can readily mislead...

Editorial: A Lie That Erases the Dead

When Tucker Carlson declared recently that not a single American has been killed by radical Islam since Sept. 11, 2001, he was not offering...

Opinion: I Didn’t Officiate at Her Wedding — And I Still Showed Up

Rabbi Amy Wallk, Ph.D. A few months ago, I attended the wedding of a woman I have known for nearly 30 years. I met the...

Editorial: Minnesota’s Fraud Scandal Is a National Warning

Over the past several years, Minnesota has become the unlikely center of a major public sector fraud breakdown. Investigations have uncovered widespread abuse of...

Opinion: Poland, Jewish Memory and the Hard Work of Truth

Jack Simony From Poland, where the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation is based, I’m often asked a blunt question by Jewish communities abroad: What is Poland...

D’var Torah: Speech, Power and Resistance

Rabba Daphne Lazar Price This week’s Torah portion is Va’era: Exodus 6:2 — 9:35 Parashat Va’era is a story about power and about being heard. This...