Opinion | Here’s what Yiddish writers can teach us about Tulsa and beyond
By Jessica Kirzane
My grandpa once told me a story about when my great-grandparents were on a steamship emigrating from Ukraine to Cuba in the...
Opinion | How a ‘wokestorm’ is misleading a generation about Israel
By Rabbi Avram Mlotek
Just a few weeks ago, the streets of New York City were filled with thousands of people shouting “intifada” while also...
Opinion | Reflections, post-Gaza conflict
By Sarah N. Stern
It is the period after another round of fighting between Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces. This is the fourth conflict...
Opinion | Stop antisemitic gaslighting, online and everywhere else
By Taryn Herlich
When we hear the term gaslighting, we often think of an abusive or unhealthy relationship. Typically the goal of the perpetrator is...
Opinion | The 11th lost tribe
By Douglas Altabef
The recently updated Pew Research Center survey of American Jewry is notable for its data showing dramatic growth in the number of...
Opinion | Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice
By Rabbi Minna Bromberg
Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive?
Stop telling fat people about...
Jewish Americans deserve hate crime protection too
By Dov S. Zakheim
On Thursday, May 20, President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which had been passed overwhelmingly by both houses...
Opinion | The religious symbolism of the cicadas
By Dr. Janet S. Sunness
We have entered the season of cicadas. When we had the last outbreak, in 2004, I asked myself what the...
Opinion | We were a Compton’s Encyclopedia Jewish family
By Karen Galatz
Jews are often called the People of the Book, a reference to our reverence for sacred writings, but in my nonobservant childhood...
Opinion | My zadie, Holocaust survivor and master shochet
By Jeremy Diamond
Rev. Irvin (Isaac Leib) Stern was born on March 3, 1927. He was the oldest child to Chantza and Yisroel Dov Stern....
