Voices

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...

War Is Hell. Everywhere

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By Ben Cohen “War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after...

160 Days of War: What Have We Learned?

By Yael Eckstein It’s been more than 160 days since Hamas terrorists invaded my homeland, Israel, the only home for the Jewish people, leaving behind...
Bill Fox

The Israel-Hamas War: Who’s the Victim and Who’s the Perp?

By Bill Fox Instead of blaming Israel, the world should be placing the blame where it belongs — first, on Hamas. Why doesn’t it? They...
Jodi Wahlberg

Creating ‘Bridges’ for Lateral Admissions at Krieger Schechter Day School

By Jodi Wahlberg and Nissa Weinberg How can we expand our enrollment? Is there a target audience we have not yet explored? These are questions our...
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...
Ben Cohen

Politicians Who Abuse the Holocaust Should Be Sanctioned

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By Ben Cohen The Israeli government was absolutely right in its decision last week to announce that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva —...
Repair the World volunteers work in a garden

Jewish Service Can Support Recovery Efforts in Israel and Sustain Jewish Life in North...

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By Cindy Greenberg It’s not hard to feel a sense of despair in these extraordinarily difficult times for Jews in Israel and around the world...
Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg

Anger and Justice: Doing Something Is Never as Good as Doing the Right Thing

By Rabbi Daniel Cotzin Burg Teaching about anger, Maimonides wrote, “One should not be of an angry disposition and be easily angered, nor should one...