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...
Opinion | I used to judge ex-Orthodox Jews until I started listening to them
By Rivka Nehorai
Ten years ago, I sat shocked watching a new music video from one of my creative Jewish heroes, Matisyahu. Newly married and...
Opinion | Afghanistan: Chronicle of a failure foretold
By Eyal Zisser
The last American soldiers are only supposed to leave Afghanistan a month from now, but the Taliban has already reached the capital,...
Opinion | Simone Biles exemplifies pikuach nefesh
By Hannah S. Pressman
At first it seemed like any other morning. I had to get two kids ready for camp (fill water bottles, slather...
Opinion | No easy fix for Israel’s gold-medal civil marriage dilemma
It was an epic Olympic Games for Israel. The Jewish state’s team brought home a record four medals from the Tokyo Olympiad, including two...
Opinion | Ben & Jerry’s dispute a sign of growing societal challenge
By Dan Schnur
Sometimes an ice cream cone is just an ice cream cone. But sometimes a debate that may seem to be just about...
Opinion | Will the Delta variant spoil the High Holiday comeback?
By David Suissa
Just as things were returning to normal, and rabbis across America were eagerly anticipating a full reopening for the High Holidays, the...
Opinion | Ben & Jerry’s is right: Settlements on Palestinian land aren’t Israel
By Matthew Weinstein
Here in Tel Aviv, the announcement by Ben & Jerry’s that they are planning to end sales of their products in West...
