Opinion | Sukkot’s message is essential during our climate crisis
By Esti Shapiro
Growing up in the temperamental weather of Denver, Colo., it was not at all unusual to experience rain, high winds, heat waves...
Opinion | Observing Yom Kippur with a disordered eating past
By Sarah Simone
Yom Kippur is arguably one of the most important days in the Jewish calendar. It is the Day of Atonement, a day...
Opinion | Housing saves lives
By Dr. Gwen L. DuBois
While we are still in the midst of a global pandemic, we are also in the midst of an ever-worsening...
Opinion | A patchwork of pandemic stories at the Jewish Museum
By Maggie Hoffman
Since March of 2020, we’ve collectively faced unimaginable challenges and grappled with overwhelming grief. We’ve worked on the front lines and balanced...
Opinion | Rosh Hashanah: A time of renewal and unity
By Rabbi Elie Abadie
As Jews, every Rosh Hashanah, we rededicate our commitment to Judaism. We reaffirm our devotion to Jewish law, and we strive...
Opinion | What to remember when abuse stories break in Jewish communities
By Sheila Katz and Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
We are, once again, in a season of reckoning with sexual abuse in the Jewish community and in...
Opinion | The fall of Kabul will bode well for American adversaries
By Maya Carlin
Bad actors are lining up to fill the vacuum in Afghanistan created by the U.S. withdrawal. Iran, Qatar, Russia and China are...
Opinion | 30 years of peacemaking helped put Crown Heights back together
By Eli Cohen
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Brooklyn last week, when my neighborhood came together for “One Crown Heights,” a day of...
Opinion | Remembering Irving Joseph Abramowitz
By Alan A. and Janet M. Abramowitz
Our father and father-in-law, Irving Joseph Abramowitz, a World War II veteran and Baltimore City native, died of...
Opinion | Time to take a page from Silicon Valley and disrupt antisemitism
By Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman and Belle Etra Yoeli
We met as bright-eyed junior staffers working at American Jewish Committee’s office in Washington, D.C., six years...
