As in all life matters, when it comes to abortion, Judaism doesn’t speak of rights but of responsibilities and obligations. Seeing things through that lens can be a real eye opener.The concept of “rights” is deeply ingrained in our Western minds....
The criminal investigations that special counsel Robert Mueller led for the Department of Justice for the last two years were not about Donald Trump or Donald Jr. or Michael Cohen or George Papadopoulos or Michael Flynn or any of the many other members...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 2, 2019
June 6, 2023, will mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion that dealt a fatal blow to the evil, genocidal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, saved Western civilization and arguably the Jews of the entire world.
On June 5, 1944, after...
What do Notre Dame Cathedral, Kate Smith and Joe Biden have in common? All are famous names from the past, threatened recently with erasure from our collective memory because they do not stand up to contemporary sensibilities.In short, they have each...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published May 30, 2019
There are particular sacred texts of Jewish Tradition that I make a point of reviewing at least on an annual basis. These tend to be teachings and insights that not only appeal to my mind and intellect, but also resonate deeply within the chambers of...
Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning “The Caine Mutiny” died last week nearly 70 years after achieving fame. Besides his long career as a writer he was also a lifelong Zionist.This fact...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — After 50-plus years of advising on Arab-Israeli negotiations and analyzing Israeli politics, I thought I had seen everything. But yesterday’s dissolution of the Knesset by Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was elected a mere seven weeks...
(JTA) – I’ll admit it: At first I didn’t think it was a big deal. Someone alerted me to a tweet from Politico touting their cover story about Bernie Sanders’ wealth. “The Secret of Bernie’s Millions” is illustrated by a montage of the Jewish...
On May 27, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that I would be ordaining a gay Orthodox rabbinical student who was denied the opportunity to receive smicha from his own Orthodox yeshiva. On May 27, I did so, ordaining Rabbi Daniel Atwood during...
Aliyah should be part of the conversation Many readers no doubt shared Dorit Sasson’s assertion that the horrific shooting attack on the Chabad synagogue in Poway “made me feel more vulnerable than I have ever felt before” in her May 15 commentary,...
Not to be outdone in the fervent race to the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, Missouri’s Republican-controlled legislature giddily passed its extreme abortion ban, HB 126, on the final day of the session.
Once signed into law, Missouri will...
With Missouri following Alabama by passing a restrictive law limiting abortion to the first few weeks, and then only to save the life of the mother, a “teachable moment” presents itself: the view of the Jewish religion and culture. Jews and, as...
