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...
Rishona Campbell, The Forward
• Published February 3, 2022
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Before anything else, let me say that I have no intention of “canceling” Whoopi Goldberg....
Melanie Phillips, JNS
• Published February 3, 2022
The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.
The Rebbe of Kotzk was once asked: “Where is God to be found?” He famously answered” God is found wherever we let God in.”
At first the question seems to be about a specific geographic location (like a synagogue, a temple, or another sacred...
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,...
Sometimes, in the darkest of times, there appears a small flickering light.
Last week, I was honored to be among a formidable group that testified in the state capital in favor of HB2000, a bill promoting a week of (age-appropriate) Holocaust education...
(JTA) — Like many people, I encountered “Maus” as a middle schooler. But unlike many people, I can say that it set me on a direct path to my eventual career — as a scholar of religion, especially Judaism, and popular culture.
I was 12 when the...
In an extraordinary move to attain media synchrony, Amnesty International actually pre-positioned an “embargoed” press release to maximize simultaneous anti-Israel impact.
(JTA) — Is it appropriate to call an ancient rabbi a “legendary hottie”? To use “thirst” in the online sense? To translate one Talmudic voice replying to another as, “Oh my God, what the actual f–k is wrong with you, you misogynistic...
Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham
• Published January 27, 2022
Our parshah this week, Mishpatim, embraces law after law right on the heels of the Ten Commandments. Our foremost commentator, Rashi, points out that Mishpatim should be viewed as a continuation of the previous parshah, Yitro. Why? How?
The very...
