In their new book “How Democracies Die,” professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt of Harvard University examine the growing threat to democracy worldwide, including in the United States. A lot has been made about Donald Trump as an authoritarian...

We teach students at the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School from the first day of kindergarten that they have power  and that they should use it in big ways and small. We reiterate this at every opportunity, and celebrate with them when their ideas...

IRVINE, Calif. (JTA) — When most people think about the intersection of faith and political activism, the religious right comes to mind. And there’s no doubt that the current leaders of our government are closely aligned with the agenda of religious...

Although President Donald Trump’s released budget for fiscal year 2019 was not good news for low-income Americans, last year’s proposal from the White House prepared us to expect massive cuts to safety net programs like SNAP (formally known as food...

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Danish artist Danh Vo was born in Vietnam and raised a Catholic — essentially the last person you’d expect to be written about in the Jewish press. The Guggenheim Museum here is staging a major retrospective of Vo’s work,...

On the night of Feb. 21, I learned I have atrial fibrillation, a condition that can cause my heart to beat irregularly and way too fast. I didn’t learn this from test results or from a mobile screening program in a van down by the river. I learned it...

Four days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution mandating a cease-fire in Syria without delay, the carnage continues with no end in sight.  The cease-fire, which was to last for 30 days, was to allow humanitarian...