More tremors in the shaky coalition
Could Israel’s rightward-leaning parties — who have historically been the strongest advocates for the settler movement — find themselves in the position of causing...
Letters to the editor: June 10
Honest debate about guns
Jonathon S. Tobin’s recent opinion piece on guns and the Second Amendment (“The only honest discussion about guns rests on the...
Parshat Nasso: Strength in community
By Casey Silverman
This week’s Torah portion, Nasso, is about commitment to community. A lot of my Torah portion talks about playing one of...
Opinion | Here’s why I’m a Zionist
By Mark Hotz
One Sunday morning when I was about 9 years old, my Hebrew school class was ushered into a large room to watch...
Opinion | The year behind us, and the year that could lie ahead
By Linda A. Hurwitz
Imagine you are sitting here a year ago, and I challenged you to forecast the future. How might you have responded?
Would...
Opinion | In a millisecond in front of Israel’s president
By Jason Langsner
Standing before Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, at his residence in Jerusalem, I paused. In a millisecond, while simultaneously taking a deep breath,...
Opinion | The only honest discussion about guns rests on the Second Amendment
By Jonathan S. Tobin
The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, is just one more in a long succession of horrific examples of gun violence in America....
Opinion | Here’s how we can help 100,000 new Ukrainian refugees
By Elana Broitman
After my family and I escaped from Odessa in the mid-1970s, an awful feeling of statelessness settled upon me. Our family had...
Parshat Bamidbar: Surviving adversity
By Julia Blumberg
This week’s parshah is Bamidbar, which tells the story of our people’s exodus from Egypt and is focused on their 40 years...
A Plan B for Iran?
With President Joe Biden’s decision to keep Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the State Department list of terrorist organizations, the administration...