As Ruth McCambridge points out in her Nov. 10 Nonprofit Quarterly article about the proposed Johnson Amendment rollback in the House tax bill, thousands of nonprofits have spoken up with firm opposition to inserting nonprofits into the partisan political...
From 9:30 to 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 3, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis will hold an open town hall meeting to discuss its proposed strategic plan at Congregation Shaare Emeth. I hope you will consider joining us to provide your input into our future...
The Anti-Defamation League’s report released last week of an increase in U.S. anti-Semitic incidents for the year, from 779 to 1,299, is truly disturbing. Unmentioned in the report is the fact that although some of these incidents derive from the “usual...
I have to admit I am a Luddite. I tend to be skeptical of all the hyping of emerging technology, whether it is the self-driving car or robots delivering your cocktail at a restaurant. Nowhere has there been more touting of technology than in the field...
In the wake of so much civic dysfunction, the work of Martin Luther Mathews and Hubert “Dickey” Ballentine shines a light on how to build comity and community.We are reminded repeatedly — especially in recent weeks — that we live in a polarized...
If you were to design your ideal retirement day, what would it be? There’s value in this exercise, whether you are already retired or still working but thinking about retirement. Try this. Create a table with two columns. In the first column,...
NEW YORK (JTA) — In a famous episode of “Seinfeld,” Jerry is upset that his dentist, a recent convert to Judaism, is already telling Jewish jokes. He complains to the dentist’s former priest.“I wanted to talk to you about Dr. Whatley,” Jerry...
By BEN COHEN, JNS.ORG
• Published November 2, 2017
For the Palestinians, the year zero is not 1948, when the state of Israel came into being, but 1917, when Great Britain issued, in the November of that year, the Balfour Declaration—expressing support for the establishment of a “Jewish national home”...
Yiddish phrase evokes fond memories Your Yiddish phrase in the Oct. 18 edition of the Jewish Light (Yiddish Word of the Week, Jewish Lite page), “Hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik” that was interpreted as “stop annoying me, don’t bother me,” does...
A few days from now, the members of the Kelly family will mark the seventh anniversary of the worst day of their collective lives, the day they became a Gold Star family.It was Nov. 9, 2010, when the Kellys — husband and father John F. Kelly, the current...
When I was preparing to retire, I asked former colleagues who had previously made the leap, “What has surprised you in retirement?”There were a number of common themes in their responses, and among these was a sentiment echoed by many. In one way...
Modern Orthodoxy isn’t one size fits allI’d like to thank the Jewish Light for printing the article entitled “Five Takeaways from new survey about Modern Orthodox Jews” (Oct. 4). The final takeaway on the educational level of those labeled as...
