Opinion | Why aren’t American Jews talking more about student debt relief?
By Rabbi Emily Cohen
When I finished rabbinical school in 2018, I entered the “real world” with $40,000 in student loans. I acted fast, prioritizing...
Opinion | The perils of broadcasting in Arabic
By Ben Cohen
Last week was a lousy one for the taxpayer-funded German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, bookended by no less than two antisemitism scandals...
Opinion | My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. That’s why I’m a rabbi for racial...
Rabbi Barry H. Block
In “The Social Justice Torah Commentary,” Rabbi Brian Stoller describes a turtle-shaped dinner bell that his great-grandmother used to summon a...
Opinion | Rethinking fundraising for Jewish education
By Solomon D. Stevens
I get requests for donations to Jewish organizations almost every day. And there is no doubt about it: Almost every request...
Opinion | How the Mizrahi Jewish story defeats anti-Zionist mythology
By James Sinkinson
Anti-Zionists are fond of claiming that Israel is a colonial enterprise of white Ashkenazi Jews — as though Jews exiled to Europe...
Opinion | Larry David has never been more Jewish than in this season’s ‘Curb’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
“Curb Your Enthusiasm” has always been a Jewy show, but this season it is downright Jewish.
On the HBO sitcom, now in its...
Opinion | Term limits won’t help with stability
By Ariel Kahana
What do Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Tony Blair and Angela Merkel have in common? They’re all leaders who have gone...
Opinion | Orthodox reaction to Chaim Walder allegations must become the norm
By Asher Lovy
Allegations of child sexual abuse against Chaim Walder, the author of children’s books beloved in the haredi Orthodox market, and the uncharacteristically...
Opinion | What my research reveals about gift giving
By Deborah Y. Cohn
Since my daughters were little, the family Chanukah ritual has been for each to unwrap one gift each night of the...
Opinion | Why would he go for a run on Yom Kippur?
By Rabbi Charles Arian
The late Rabbi Richard Israel once published an essay that he later expanded into a book called “The Kosher Pig.” In...
