Kansas case should give Missouri anti-BDS law supporters pauseOn Jan. 30, a federal court ruled against a Kansas law requiring state contractors to swear they will not boycott Israel. In a strongly worded decision, the court determined that the law violates...
As 2017 came to an end, I made myself a promise I knew would be hard to keep: In 2018, I would start trying to ignore the president of the United States.I lasted about 36 hours.Then, on Jan. 2, I got sucked in by online coverage of Donald Trump’s idiotic...
Editor’s note: Jewish Federation President and CEO Andrew Rehfeld’s commentary below is adapted from a speech he gave at the JProStl luncheon Feb. 1 at the Jewish Community Center. For the past six years I have had the pleasure of closing the annual...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published February 1, 2018
“The Post,” a gripping film about the behind-the-scenes scramble at The Washington Post leading up to the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers, underscores the importance of journalistic integrity and the public’s right to know even in the face...
This is in regard to the Jewish Light’s Jan. 24 article “Digital Provocateur.” Let me state at the outset that I don’t know Russel Neiss nor have I read any of his writings until now. But I appreciate the prominent coverage given by the Light...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published February 1, 2018
Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel and most Jewish communities primarily employ another date...
(JTA) — “Nothing matters.” You hear that a lot these days.You hear it when The Wall Street Journal reports that the president’s personal lawyer paid a porn actress $130,000, at the height of the presidential campaign, so she would stay silent...
By Rabbi Deborah Waxman
• Published January 30, 2018
PHILADELPHIA — “I don’t know any Jews who go to temple.”The line is from a remarkably poignant scene in the 2004 film “Garden State,” in which Zach Braff’s character explains to his love interest, played by Natalie Portman, a few things...
About 20 years ago, nearly five years before I retired, I began investigating what retirement might be like and what I could do to make it what I wanted it to be. My friend, Keith Lawrence, and I joined forces and were fortunate to learn enough to write...
In Harris Frank’s letter to the editor “Millstone Remembered” (Jan. 10 edition), Mr. Frank wrote that Mr. Millstone’s “philanthropy did not stop” with St. Louis. On our first trip to Israel our guide gave the group a little historical trivia....
Each time I sit down to study Torah, I walk away with a relevant message for my daily life. There is always a “take home” value to it. This week’s Torah portion is no exception as it is replete with pertinent lessons, some open and others more subtle. One...
It is that time for New Year’s resolutions. The past year ended with “The Silence Breakers” — the women who came forward as part of the #MeToo movement to report their stories about sexual assault and harassment — being named Time magazine’s...
