BY DAVID SUISSA, Jewish Journal
• Published May 2, 2019
With anti-Semitism on the rise, the deadly shooting at the synagogue in Poway last Shabbat had a tragic familiarity. Here we go again: Six months ago we had Pittsburgh, now it’s Poway. What’s next?It’s even worse in Europe, and especially in France,...
TEL AVIV (JTA) – One evening as a child in Petach Tikvah, I was in my room listening to the Iraqi Jewish singer Salima Mourad when a siren pierced the air. I rose from my bed and stood in silence.The siren marked the start of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust...
Janice Weinman and Ellen Hershkin
• Published April 30, 2019
(JTA) — On the Shabbat morning of April 27, Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye was murdered while celebrating Passover at the Chabad of Poway. The synagogue’s rabbi, a male congregant and an 8-year-old girl were wounded as well by the self-avowed...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
• Published April 28, 2019
(JTA) — Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshiper at a San-Diego area Chabad and wounded three others: He was a white, 19-year-old college student who grew up in an Orthodox Presbyterian church and he may or may not have...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published April 25, 2019
According to The New York Times, the re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Palestinian families seeing “no light at the end of the tunnel.”A feature published on the front page of Monday’s Times focuses on the despair...
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
• Published April 25, 2019
If Moses won’t come to the mountain, bring the mountain to Moses.This might be the tagline from conservative strategists’ latest brainstorm: according to Politico, the Republican Jewish Coalition is spearheading a multi-million dollar campaign to...
(JTA) — My seders, like most, drew to a close with the annual cringe-fest known as “Sh’foch Hamatcha,” in which everyone stands up and urges the Almighty to “Pour out Your fury on the nations [goyim] that do not know You.” The section is a...
Let’s see the full Mueller reportRegarding the April 10 commentary by Marty Rochester (“The Trump ‘witch hunt’ is over; let’s move on”): Until the Mueller report is given to Congress we will never know the complete truth as to what President...
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — After I spoke to a group of people whose post-college-aged children would soon be going on a Birthright Israel trip, one father leaned in close to me, winked and whispered, “Just do what you have to to make sure my son finds...
Donald Trump often behaves in an unpresidential fashion. That said, his misbehavior has been more than matched by the misbehavior of many of his critics during the “Russiagate” affair that has (hopefully) come to an end with the completion of Special...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published April 11, 2019
Without question, the night of the Passover seder is among the most powerful experiences of the entire year. We daven, sing, eat, discuss, debate and methodically make our way through the Haggadah and a long night filled with rituals, customs and practices...
Newspaper should live up to its nameEric Mink’s latest column (“We still don’t know what’s in the Mueller report,” April 3 edition) requires me to remind the editors that the main word in your name is “Jewish.” You are not the liberal,...
