(JTA) — Anyone teaching the past by skipping over the unpleasant parts isn’t teaching history. They are engaged in propaganda. Jewish tradition understands this: Refusing to sugarcoat their own people’s culpability, the Sages themselves teach...

Bullying is happening in our St. Louis Jewish community, and we can no longer be silent about it. As rabbis and community leaders, we recognize that we have taken on public roles. We each have different paths, but we have embarked on this process with...

Act would ensure voting rights, fair elections  We now have a historic opportunity to bring about transformative change and strengthen American democracy by passing the For the People Act (SW1). The act incorporates key measures that are urgently needed,...

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in over two years, cinemas are getting a fresh Marvel Cinematic Universe entry. The last time we spent time with an avenger, a pandemic was still almost a year away and Peter Parker was our way out of the cocoon...

Last fall, an ad-hoc committee of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, composed of members of the Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees and community representatives, began the long-overdue process of updating our bylaws to make them current and relevant...

Isaac Herzog, soon to become president of Israel, is a remarkable leader who excels at building personal relationships and bridges across political, religious and social divides. The future of the Jewish people, those living in Israel and those in the...

School is out! It’s officially summer! Time for a family vacation! From Labor Day to Memorial Day, parents and kids look forward to this time of year. I bet that you, like me, look back fondly at memories of summer family vacations. Mine include...

(JTA) — Until a 13-story building inexplicably collapsed in the middle of the night, placing the whereabouts and lives of 159 residents in doubt, few gave Surfside, Florida, very much thought before last week. The town was, after all, a South Florida...

When I was a child, my Uncle George would grab my cheeks so hard I thought he’d lift me off the ground. “Such a shayna punim” he’d exclaim with joy. “Yes!” my parents would reply with equal joy. At 6, I hated Uncle George and I...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — After several years of big wins for insurgent progressive Democrats in New York City — including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — this week’s municipal primary was regarded by some as a test of their strength, especially...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The two of us have spent most of our lives working for two causes: Israel and the Democratic Party. For a long time we experienced very little dissonance or disagreement. If you were pro-Israel, you were most likely...