Threading the Political Needle in Gaza
The politics of Israel’s war in Gaza get more difficult to navigate each day.
Following the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, Israel had significant world...
Parshat Tazria: The Power of Our Words
By Rabbi Joshua Z. Gruenberg
One of the hardest lessons to learn as a rabbi is that your word — that is to say, how...
If Not Now, When?
By Harry Kozlovsky
The barbarism post Oct. 7, in Israel, together with the unleashed, rabid, in-your-face antisemitism in the United States, has no parallel in...
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge
The video and pictures of the tragic collapse of the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are horrific. Early on March 27, an...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Unmasked
For more than two decades, we have followed the political career of Chris Van Hollen, the junior U.S. senator from Mayland. From 2003 to...
Parshat Shemini: The Sound of Silence
By Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz
Parshat Shemini parallels the emotional roller coaster that seems all too familiar to many of us.
The parshah opens with the culmination...
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, OBM
Joe Lieberman, a former longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the first Jewish American nominated to a major party’s national ticket as the...
Parshat Tzav: Lead or Get Out of the Way
By Reb Ezra Weinberg
Jewish leadership is hard business. I don’t envy our leaders, but I pray for them and their ability to access our...
Out of All the Israeli Hostages in Gaza, the One I Think About Most...
By Jane Gabin
When I first met Keith Siegel, he was the last of four siblings still at home. He was in high school, and...
Oct. 7 Has Left Us With New Scars But It Has Strengthened Us
By Solomon D. Stevens
I knew a wonderful woman who lived through Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938. She told me that what was most frightening...
