(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...
Karen Adler and Ada Horwich
• Published June 23, 2021
(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...
This article originally appeared on Kveller.
I’m an American Jew from New York who now lives in Paris.
What brought me here at the age of 68 in the middle of a pandemic? That’s a long story — a long marriage, a sudden death, trying to put my...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published June 22, 2021
You know that thing when you pick up the leash and the dog runs to the front door, ready for his walk?
That’s me when my wife asks if I want to go to Trader Joe’s.
I’m not alone in this. The grocery chain has a big, almost cultish following....
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In my last op-ed, I invited liberal readers to meet me and other conservatives halfway and see if we could not only agree to disagree in a respectful fashion but also see if we could even forge some degree of agreement among our disagreements. That is,...
(JTA) — To everything there is a season. June is Pride season, one where LGBTQ people proudly refuse to choose between our identities and our demand for the freedom to live equally and without fear.
A Wider Bridge, which builds meaningful relationships...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 21, 2021
Who’s the bald, bearded guy with the loud voice and all these opinions?! It’s me, Dan Buffa. Many of you already know me as the sports and entertainment guide here at the Jewish Light -- so think of this new column as a way to get to know me even...
RABBI DOV GREENBERG, THE JEWISH NEWS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
• Published June 21, 2021
We all know Moses, the liberator, law giver, military hero, greatest of all prophets. We all know his brother Aaron, pursuer of peace, Israel’s first priest, ancestor of all Kohanim. We all know Miriam, their older sister, the prophetess and one of...
(JTA) — The COVID-19 epidemic proves you cannot just treat a plague’s symptoms – you must root it out. Yet as incidents of Jew-bullying in the U.S. more than doubled in May compared to the same time period in 2020, too many American Jews complained...
(JTA) — On March 13, nearly a year to the day after Temple Beth El of Charlotte, North Carolina, closed due to COVID-19, Rabbi Dusty Klass gathered the congregation’s 900 households for a shared — albeit remote — Jewish experience.
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This story originally appeared on TheForward.com
I had a friend from camp who loved Ferris Bueller and lived by the Tao of his maxim: “Life moves pretty fast if you don’t stop to look around once in a while.” The friend’s name was, funnily...
