RABBI CARNIE SHALOM ROSE
• Published June 30, 2022
This week, we will once again be reading the Torah portion of Korach from the Book of Numbers. Named for the anti-hero and rabble-rouser of the tale, Korach — a cousin to Aaron, Moses and Miriam — this Parashah is one of the most intriguing and...
AMY FENSTER BROWN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 29, 2022
As I write this, I’m watching the Tony Awards, where Broadway artists are honored for their outstanding work. I love awards shows so much: the celebrities, the fashion, the speeches in which the winners act like they’re surprised to be revered because...
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL, JTA
• Published June 26, 2022
(JTA) — For years I worked in an office where, in order to make an outside phone call, you had to dial 9 plus 1 plus your number. At least once a week, the police would show up in the lobby because someone had accidentally dialed 9-1-1. The head of...
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, the opportunity to visit congregants at Jewish sleep-away camps is back in my summer plans. I am excited to have this opportunity return and see our children in such a wonderful, informal educational setting.
When...
ELIZABETH MACANUFO, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2022
I went to Camp Herzl in Minnesota for three weeks, returning on my 13th birthday. I hated it. I missed my family, objected to spending time outdoors and, as a Reform Jew, felt lost among my more religious peers.
And yet, I strongly suggested that...
By Abe Silberstein, The Forward
• Published June 21, 2022
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced on Monday the end of their governing coalition, which had just recently marked its one-year anniversary. Lapid will assume the premiership until the formation of a new...
(JNS) For well over a week, the Israeli government has been urging Israelis in Turkey to return home as soon as possible. It has also admonished those unable or unwilling to cut short their holidays not to frequent shops, restaurants or tourist attractions...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Jewish Week
• Published June 19, 2022
(JTA) — There is an old joke about the Jewish atheist who is excited to meet the Great Heretic of Prague. He arrives at the great man’s house on a Friday night, and is immediately told to shush while the Heretic lights Shabbat candles. Then they sit...
RABBI CARNIE SHALOM ROSE
• Published June 16, 2022
“And the Almighty spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand.” (Numbers 8:1-2)
All too often, I hear from my students about how “irrelevant and anachronistic”...
(JTA) — When a Google engineer told an interviewer that an artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by the company had become “sentient,” it touched off a passionate debate about what it would mean for a machine to have human-like...
By Eric Mink, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published June 13, 2022
Over the many years I've earned a living as a fact-driven opinion journalist, regular readers who choose to spend some of their time with my work –- for which I'm always grateful –- discover early on that my positions on public issues tend to wind...
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