Opinion

Rabbi Maurice Harris

Parshat Vayakhel: Kindling an Eternal Light

By Rabbi Maurice Harris Last week’s Torah portion, Ki Tisa, featured the golden calf disaster: a story of fear, betrayal, misguided impulses and, ultimately, divine...
Michael J. Koplow

How to Ensure That There Is No Day After

By Michael J. Koplow When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a one-page-plus-one-paragraph document encompassing his plan for what should happen next in Gaza, it was...

Letters to the Editor: March 8

0
Netanyahu’s Plan I read with increasing incredulity your recent editorial, “Netanyahu’s Plan – A Good First Step” (March 1). As my friend and colleague, Michael...

The Impact of ‘Uncommitted’ in Michigan

The Feb. 27 primary in Michigan had some clear results and some less clear results. They were all significant. President Joe Biden and former president...

Anti-Israel Tolerance on Campus

Last week, before a UC Berkeley program titled “Israel at War: Combat the Lies,” at which Israel Defense Forces reservist and lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat...
Rabbi Joanne Yocheved Heiligman

Parshat Ki Tisa: Compassion and Mercy

By Rabbi Joanne Yocheved Heiligman Imagine this: A woman goes through nine months of pregnancy and many long hours of labor before giving birth to...

Letters to the Editor: March 1

0
Flu Season Advice There is additional information that might be helpful to Jewish Times readers during flu season (“Self-Care for Sick Days: Navigate Cough, Cold...
Ben Cohen

Politicians Who Abuse the Holocaust Should Be Sanctioned

0
By Ben Cohen The Israeli government was absolutely right in its decision last week to announce that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva —...

Netanyahu’s Plan – A Good First Step

On Feb. 23, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released his most detailed proposal yet for a postwar Gaza. Within hours of the plan’s release,...

Israel @ ICJ – Round Two

For the second time in the last several months, the state of Israel is the subject of proceedings before the U.N.’s highest court. This time,...