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Editorial: High Court, High Drama

Editorial: High Court, High Drama

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished October 4, 2018

Not even the combined writing skills of Allen Drury and Tom Clancy could have come up with a more dramatic political scenario than last week’s hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.The testimony first by professor Christine Blasey Ford and...

Editorial: Midterms and Mandates

Editorial: Midterms and Mandates

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished October 4, 2018

Whether you agreed with the process or not, last week’s dramatic Supreme Court confirmation hearing had to impress on everyone the importance of voting.With razor-thin margins in both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate, and the rancorous...

Judaism and Zionism at Rutgers University

Judaism and Zionism at Rutgers University

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished September 27, 2018

The longstanding controversy over Israel, Zionism and Palestinian rights has resurfaced on an old battleground: New Jersey.And in the process, it is reviving another age-old question: Is Judaism a religion, an ethnicity or both?The issue, first reported...

Is Closure of PLO Office Wise or Reckless?

Is Closure of PLO Office Wise or Reckless?

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished September 20, 2018

Now that President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, the question becomes what the response will be. Will the PLO take positive steps toward long-sought peace in the...

A Threat to Britain’s  Jewish Community

A Threat to Britain’s Jewish Community

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished September 20, 2018

For several months, actions and statements regarding Israel by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party, have been criticized as not only unfair to the Jewish State but a thinly veiled effort to denigrate Britain’s Jewish community.Now,...

5779: A New Year of Challenge and Hope

5779: A New Year of Challenge and Hope

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished September 13, 2018

This is the day of the world’s beginning; now we recall creation’s first day.  On this day the fate of nations is in the balance — for war or peace, for famine or plenty ... life and death are in the balance.  Every mortal’s record is set...

Jewish Light Editorial

Politics, Pulpits and Pandering

Jewish Light EditorialPublished September 5, 2018

Sometimes it seems like bad ideas never go away; they just retreat from the public consciousness, only to resurface again and again.That’s what happened last week, when the Post-Dispatch reported that Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general and Republican...

Two Lives to Remember, Two Legacies to Honor

Two Lives to Remember, Two Legacies to Honor

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished August 30, 2018

A Legacy of Honor and Courage…Sen. John McCain knew he was dying of an aggressive form of brain cancer when he published his affecting memoir “The Restless Wave.”  With characteristic McCain modesty, he said he was grateful to have been “a bit...

Keep Hate Out  of Public Office

Keep Hate Out of Public Office

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished August 23, 2018

At this month’s march in Washington called to mark the anniversary of last year’s deadly event in Charlottesville, Va., one of the counterprotesters — who greatly outnumbered a paltry crowd of marchers — carried a sign with this message:“I can’t...

The Rockets of August

The Rockets of August

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished August 16, 2018

August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when  time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...

Crunch Time Over Iran

Crunch Time Over Iran

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALSPublished August 16, 2018

The White House has made good on its promise to reinstate even harsher sanctions against Iran in the aftermath of the confusing disconnect between  President Donald Trump’s own rhetoric and key members of his intelligence, foreign policy and security...

Don’t Unfriend  the Druze

Don’t Unfriend the Druze

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished August 9, 2018

We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...

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