(JTA) — This week, the State of Israel’s comptroller sharply criticized the government for neglecting the intense poverty of many of the state’s elderly Holocaust survivors.Like the sirens that will blare Monday in Israel on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust...
When I was in graduate school in Washington, D.C., in the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon’s administration was entangled in the vast web of deceit that we have long known as Watergate.In 1973 and 1974, I worked part-time at the Kansas City Star’s...
My clients and friends often give me books and articles on career management. There is a plethora of such materials and they tend to vary widely in practicality and general usefulness. However, a recent gift was a winner, and it wasn’t even on career...
Whether you are already retired or thinking about the possibility, can you envision a full and fulfilling retirement, that retirement you have worked so hard for all your life, that retirement you deserve? Bob Brauer can.Bob lives in Millburn, New Jersey,...
President Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria inaugurates a new chapter in the long and controversial history of American responses—and sometimes non-responses—to mass murder around the world.Although the killing of Syrian civilians by President...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman
• Published April 13, 2017
The week I am writing this, we launched another effort to break the stigma surrounding mental illness in St. Louis (March 19 at the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis), the week after a well-circulated article appeared in The New York Times (“Table...
Proposed cuts would devastate aid programsThanks to the Jewish Light for publishing Cynthia Changyit Levin’s insightful letter about the proposed cuts to global development programs (“Opposing cut to global aid programs” by Cynthia Changyit Levin,...
You didn’t read about it in the New York Times or hear about it on “CBS Evening News.” The European Union didn’t praise it, and the United Nations didn’t acknowledge it. But last week, Israel dismantled yet another Jewish settlement.Of course,...
Fellow parents, I think we've been sold a bill of goods. Parenting has always been hard, but these days, people of our generation knock themselves out in the name of giving our kids “every opportunity." We spend our lives shuttling from one music or...
Yair Lapid is the current favorite to become prime minister the next time the Israeli people go to the polls to elect a new Knesset, at some point in the not-too-distant future. But whether or not the former television star who leads the centrist Yesh...
After the Soviet Union officially collapsed at the end of 1991 and became the Russian Federation, there seemed to be a chance that it might emerge from a difficult transformation as a democracy. Less than a decade later, new Russia had slipped back into...
Is President Donald Trump a bigot, as many of his detractors claim? He surely has many flaws, some of which I often have written about — for example, his careless, even reckless, unpresidential tweets. But I doubt bigotry is one of them, at least based...
