Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 4, 2015
Two prominent British voices weighed in last month on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.One, the highly regarded Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, poignantly reminded us of the crucial importance of Holocaust remembrance, especially in the...
Attention Iran hard-liners: The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.What does that mean? Simple: Even if you don’t approve of President Barack Obama’s approach in dealing with Iran, you shouldn’t support House of Representatives Speaker John...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 21, 2015
Conflict abounds on how and whether to continue nuclear negotiations with Iran in their present state, at least until the July deadline. Should recent events serve as a context clue?In the aftermath of the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 14, 2015
Seems strange, but a Republican congressman and a fervent anti-Israel activist have together managed to demonstrate the need of universal free speech in the aftermath of the awful events in France last week.At one end of the political spectrum, the GOP...
It’s nothing personal, it’s just business.That’s essentially what conglomerate HarperCollins initially claimed when it was recently reported that a subsidiary was printing an atlas for Middle East schools that omitted the State of Israel.So in the...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 31, 2014
Looking at the year’s biggest stories in St. Louis and Israel — Ferguson and the Gaza conflict —poses the opportunity for some strange comparisons.Here’s one example: Many St. Louisans, while sympathetic to the underlying issues surrounding the...
I’ve been thinking about jellyfish recently. Not them specifically, but about living organisms and other entities that lack a spine.Here are some that come to mind from events of recent days:• Sony Pictures, for pulling back its Christmas Day-wide...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 24, 2014
There’s one easy reflection regarding Cuba, and one tougher one.The easy one first: Amid all of the competing narratives on re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, there is nearly unanimous applause for the well-timed Hanukkah gift of Alan P....
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 17, 2014
Torture represents one of the basest forms of conduct we can engage in as humans. So are there times it’s okay as Americans? As Jews?The recently released Senate Intelligence Committee report on Central Intelligence Agency activities has overwhelmed...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 10, 2014
Israel has to navigate a narrow course between its self-defense interests on the one hand and not being drawn into the ongoing, perilous, Syrian civil war on the other. Recent events exhibit the delicate nature of the situation.A statement issued by the...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 3, 2014
Israeli voters might be forgiven for thinking that their leaders are more interested in power for power’s sake than in the vital, orderly, effective governance of the state of Israel in a region fraught with dangers. Israeli voters would be correct. —...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published November 26, 2014
• “Like many Americans, we are deeply disappointed by the Grand Jury’s decision. ” Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc, self described as “a national organization inspired by Jewish values and the steadfast belief that Jewish Americans, regardless...
