(JTA) — Eight days after I was born, I had a brit. I was a Jew, and that’s what Jews do. Well, many do it anyway; Jews who are not observant may not, but that wasn’t my family. We kept Shabbat. We had the best meals and wine during Passover....
It was 2 a.m. in March of 2020, and my daughter and I watched the COVID news while scrolling through Hillel’s College Guide to find schools with a Jewish population.
One by one, we went through the list to find a school with a Jewish population....
(JTA) — Last week, Amnesty International released a 280-page report calling Israel an apartheid state and charging it with crimes against humanity, including atrocities against Palestinian citizens of Israel. Such claims have been made before,...
Everyone has pet peeves. Everyone has things that annoy them to no end. And everyone has to let those things out to free the space in their mind being taken up by negativity.
Because you and I have built this relationship of acceptance and trust,...
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The parade of Olympic athletes in their national colors, the international diplomatic corps looking...
(JTA) — On Friday my world was shaken. It hit me, as though it were a fresh wound: My father, Elie Wiesel, was really gone.
It hurt terribly when he died over five years ago, on July 2, 2016. But I also found peace and awakening as I grieved....
(JTA) — Art Spiegelman once complained that “Maus,” his classic memoir about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, was assumed to be intended for young adults because it took the form of a comic book.
“I have since...
Camp changed my life. Maybe that’s a little cliché, but for me it is entirely true. And I know the same is true for so many others who have attended or worked at summer camps throughout their lives.
Camp is a place where we are able to lean on...
The Eleven.
That’s the shorthand name I’ve given to the bipartisan group of women who currently serve in Missouri’s senate. Eleven is an historic number.
It is more women serving together in the upper chamber than ever before in Missouri’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 3, 2022
I've never been called a hero. But, I know what a hero looks like when I see one.
I saw one today, as I was researching Jewish members of our military who have earned the Medal Of Honor. His name is Sergeant 1st Class Christopher A. Celiz.
On Dec....
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 2, 2022
The recent — and extraordinarily dumb — decision by a Tennessee school board to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust-themed graphic novel “Maus” from its library is a reminder that mice cartoons have grown way beyond Mickey,...
