JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 20, 2020
President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century” for peace between Israel and the Palestinians was warmly received by the leaders of major Israeli political parties. But, predictably, it was rejected out of hand by Mahmoud Abbas, president of the...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 13, 2020
When President Abraham Lincoln stated his plans to bind the nation’s wounds in the period after the Civil War, he proposed a formula that has reverberated through the ages: “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” In 1974, after Richard...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 6, 2020
In the midst of a tumultuous news cycle that included the divisive impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, the formal split of the United Kingdom from the European Union under Brexit and the spread of the deadly coronavirus from China, Trump unveiled...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published January 30, 2020
Leaders from scores of nations, as diverse as Russian President Vladimir Putin to Prince Charles of the United Kingdom, and interfaith visitors from around the world — including an American Jewish Committee-led delegation with dozens of senior Islamic...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 22, 2020
Shanda is the Yiddish term for a scandal that brings dishonor on the Jewish people. Regrettably, it is the perfect word to describe the disgraceful conditions of rental properties in St. Louis owned by the T.E.H. Realty firm, which was started by two...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published January 16, 2020
President Donald Trump’s temperate remarks from the White House last week in response to the “revenge firing” of long range missiles into a large air base in Iraq hosting U.S. forcesshould be reassuring to Americans on all points of the political...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published January 9, 2020
Gov. Mike Parson deserves warm praise for his bold and principled decision to formally declare that Missouri will join 30 other states to accept refugees from war-torn countries.Parson made the announcement in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published January 2, 2020
Few rabbis in the history of the Jewish religion have had the far-reaching influence and lasting spiritual leadership as that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. Some 25 years after his death, the movement continues to...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published December 27, 2019
Now that the House has voted to make Donald Trump just the third American president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate, everyone involved needs to make sure the process is fair, comprehensive and dignified.It won’t be easy.Sadly, if events leading...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published December 19, 2019
Voters in the United Kingdom decisively repudiated the radical leftist Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn and gave the Conservative Party of pro-Brexit Boris Johnson a solid majority in Parliament. Returns from last Thursday’s election indicate that Johnson’s...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published December 19, 2019
The cold-blooded attack took six lives, including two Hasidic Jews, a police officer and the two alleged attackers. The suspects were identified as current or former members of a radical fringe group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 12, 2019
With Hanukkah and Christmas overlapping this year, the annual concern that has come to be known as the December Dilemma takes on added timeliness. Navigating through a cluster of joyous religious holidays without prompting hurt feelings, charges of discrimination...
