Opinion | Human Rights Watch has now gone beyond antisemitism
By Clifford D. May
Antisemitism may be the world’s oldest hatred but it’s still a long way from death’s door. What I find particularly distressing,...
Opinion | My father’s lesson: Jews must value labor even when they become management
By Rabbi Rachel Timoner
Earlier this year, when my father was in the last weeks of his life, he told us a story that none...
Opinion | Mount Meron and Israel’s paradoxical nature
By Ruthie Blum
On Saturday night, as Tel Aviv’s City Hall lit up with the image of the Israeli flag to commemorate the dozens killed...
Opinion | What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?
By Gary Rosenblatt
When I was very young, what motivated me to go to shul on Shabbat morning was the fire station two houses away...
Opinion | ‘When the Dodgers left Brooklyn’
By Phil Jacobs
I was sitting in the rabbi’s office.
We were interviewing for a feature story.
He was Chasidic. He told me about his Brooklyn childhood,...
Opinion | Does America’s Afghanistan pullout bode ill for Israel?
It turns out that there are some things on which President Joe Biden and his predecessor agree.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Biden’s decision to...
Opinion | If rabbis can’t talk about public policy, what’s the point of Torah?
By Rabbi Michael Rothbaum
When do you call the rabbi?
Sometimes to complain. (We’re Jews, after all.) But usually, a life-cycle event has taken place. A...
Opinion | Sorry, but Zoom Judaism just isn’t the real thing
By Rabbi Eli L. Garfinkel
For more than a year now, synagogues around the world have managed to continue their activities during the COVID pandemic...
Opinion | In student governments, Jews and Zionists need not apply
By Zev Hurwitz
The story goes like this:
A Jewish student is elected to the university’s student government. The student’s fitness for office is challenged by...
Opinion | The case for a paid family and medical leave bill
By Jo Shifrin
When I discovered an 18-inch hole in my mother-in-law’s wall, I realized she could no longer live alone: A swarm of termites...
