By Rabbi Ze’ev Smason
• Published September 25, 2024
Marc Kornblatt prepared uneasily earlier this year for his daughter, Louisa, to arrive for 10 days with the family. Her homecomings once brought the comfort of movie nights and card games, but this year was different. Marc and his wife, Judith, had moved...
BY RABBI KAREN BOGARD
• Published September 25, 2024
This year, our post-Oct. 6th reality seems omnipresent as we approach the Yamim Nora’im, the High Holy Days. The impact of the horrific actions taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, and the resulting loss of life and ongoing war, have cast a shadow on the joyfulness...
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A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of letters, has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906. Send yours via email, social...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published September 9, 2024
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A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of letters, has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906. Send yours via email ([email protected]),...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published September 8, 2024
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A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for a bundle of letters, has been solving reader dilemmas since 1906. Send yours via email, social...
When thinking of the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, something that invites skepticism among many Jews and others, I am reminded of an old saying: “On the eve of most revolutions, they are thought to be unimaginable; on the morning...
The office has been cleaned out, campaign photos and signs stripped from the walls, and goodbye hugs given to college interns and staff. Just a few weeks ago, St. Louis Democratic primary voters chose a new candidate, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley...
Susan Talve, The Forward
• Published August 12, 2024
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Ten years ago, on Aug. 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot by a local police officer in Ferguson, Missouri....
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
• Published August 8, 2024
This column is not about politics. It’s about leadership. It’s about how leaders who communicate honestly, inspire trust and model integrity achieve enduring success while promoting positive cultural change.
That’s why I try to avoid any discussion...
David Suissa (Jewish Journal via JNS)
• Published August 4, 2024
“I do not believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians have achieved peace, nor do I believe that this will mark an end to the blood and tears,” the 20-year-old student argued in a 1993 op-ed in his college paper. This wasn’t a popular view at...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published July 24, 2024
I have a lot of random ideas swimming around in my head. They’re doing laps, jumping off the high dive and frankly just taking up space. It’s time to purge my flooded brain.
• Charcuterie boards can be so impressive, elaborate and inviting....
Rob Eshman reported this story from the streets of Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM — The rifle shots that rang out in Pennsylvania, nearly killing former President Donald Trump, echoed in Israel as well.
In a country that is too familiar with political violence...
