NICKY BLACKBURN, ISRAEL21C
• Published May 13, 2021
There is a moment that I cannot shake. I’m sitting on the sofa talking to my husband who is abroad on a work trip, and suddenly, unexpectedly, the siren goes off. It’s nearly 9 pm, and the only sound we can hear is that awful rising and falling wail.
My...
ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published May 13, 2021
To paraphrase Dickens’ famous description of Paris in “A Tale of Two Cities,” the situation in the Middle East is indeed “the worst of times,” and there is no counterbalancing “best” scenario in sight.
Indeed, Israel is simultaneously...
RACHEL SPEZIA, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 12, 2021
Virtual learning versus in-person learning. Continuing to fully shelter in place versus expanding the “bubble.” Get the COVID-19 vaccination as early as possible versus wait for more research to be done. These are just a few examples of decisions...
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush’s staff has refused to grant the St. Louis Jewish Light an interview with the Democratic lawmaker.
This should trouble our readers because Jews constitute a small, but not insignificant, portion of the first-term Democratic lawmaker’s...
(JTA) — In Sheldon Oberman’s children’s book The Always Prayer Shawl, a grandfather passes on his tallit to his grandson along with the sage advice, “Some things change and some things don’t.” At public readings, Oberman wore his grandfather’s...
(JTA) — In the coming days and weeks, there is going to be a great deal of debate – in public discussions and in private conversations – regarding whether people like me are or are not contributing to the demise of the Jewish people by virtue of...
(JTA) — Earlier this year, I used the findings of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 “A Portrait of American Jewry” to make projections about the future demographics of the Jewish population. I anticipated a small population increase by 2023 followed...
RABBI MINNA BROMBERG, JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
• Published May 11, 2021
(JTA) — Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive?
Stop telling fat people about your diet and asking if they’d like to join you.
Last year I launched Fat Torah, with the aim of confronting weight stigma...
[Editor’s Note: More than 100 participants tuned into Zoom on April 6 for WashU Hillel’s program, “21st Century Anti-Semitism: Exploring Hate, Oppression and Identity.” Washington University rising junior Orly Einhorn, who spearheaded the...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A long-awaited construction project at our Manhattan synagogue, Ansche Chesed, is about to begin. Off in the distance we can glimpse our expanded lobby with improved safety and disability access, our renewed social hall,...
This article first appeared on Alma.
After being sent home from school, a life of relative COVID-ignorant bliss, I arrived in the ravaging chaos of the pandemic. My mother — the head of infection control and epidemiology for the largest public hospital...
(JTA) — Do you want to know one small but powerful way we could make Jewish life more inclusive?
Stop telling fat people about your diet and asking if they’d like to join you.
Last year I launched Fat Torah, with the aim of confronting weight stigma...
