BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 14, 2021
The scenes of fanatic rightist mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building was a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appropriately compared Jan. 6, 2021 to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s description of the...
This story originally appeared on Alma. The author is a member of Alma’s college writing fellows, a diverse cohort of Jewish students from around the world. Learn more here.
Not only was I in D.C. on Jan. 6, I was across the street from a hotel...
When word of Jerry Berger’s death arrived via Facebook through a family friend, I knew exactly what I had to do. I became a tipster and got in touch with my St. Louis media connections. I believe the St. Louis Post-Dispatch got to the story first,...
Last week, in shock and horror, the world watched the attempted insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Immediately, on every news station and social media platform, questions were asked, and sides were taken. Were those involved protestors or domestic terrorists?...
(JTA) — When it became clear that the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, had just been elected the first Black senator from the state of Georgia, he addressed the nation, quoting Psalm 30:6: “We may lie down weeping in the night,...
(JTA) — Americans watched in shock on Wednesday as a mob broke into the Capitol, ransacked senatorial offices and exiled a joint meeting of Congress. Many who witnessed this desecration of a U.S. governmental institution found it among the more traumatizing...
(JTA) — “Are you safe? Home? Locked down?” These are the three questions I’ve sent over and over to friends and colleagues throughout the day.
Today started for me like many others: email in the morning and then, after lunch, turning on...
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
• Published January 6, 2021
(JTA) — I remember many years ago feeling ambivalent about the prayer for the government recited in synagogues every Shabbat morning. Were we sanctifying the policies of an administration? What of political leaders who would use religious language in...
This story originally appeared on Kveller.I just lied to my 4-year-old little girl, right to her pretty little curly-haired face, about why her school was closed today. I told her it was because of a traffic problem, and we danced to the “Traffic Jam...
The year 2020 has finally come to an end — and not a moment too soon. As we look toward the New Year hoping for health and healing, let’s look back on one of the most challenging years in recent memory. Overarching 2020 was the global COVID-19...
By Amy Fenster Brown
• Published December 31, 2020
We’ve all heard people saying, “I can’t wait until 2020 is over,” as if the changing of the calendar is going to magically erase everything. No question, 2020 has been a – your choice of bad word goes here – of a year. Bleep that bleep....
If pressed for an opinion, I would say that I believe 2021 will be a better year for humanity than 2020 has been, based on a layman’s understanding of the current state of medical science, political and economic realities and human nature.
I would...
