NEW YORK (JTA) — Though deep in the winter of North America, we American Jews allow our hearts to warm slightly as we mark Tu b’Shevat — the “New Year of Trees,” when the earliest fruits in the Land of Israel begin to form on the trees.Tu b’Shevat,...
Walls workFor all those Democrats who claim a wall does not work, I suggest they go to Israel, which constructed a wall a number of years ago to keep suicide bombers out of Israel. Since that wall was built, there have been no suicide bombings from terrorists...
In 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump commented: “At the state and federal level, the United States spends more than $620 billion dollars on K-12 education each year. That’s an average of about $12,296 for every student enrolled...
(JTA) — Barring injury, Ryan Braun should surpass Hank Greenberg this season as baseball’s all-time Jewish home run hitter. The 35-year-old outfielder and longtime Milwaukee Brewer needs just 10 homers to break the late Detroit Tiger icon’s total...
By Rabbi Ariel Picard
• Published January 10, 2019
JERUSALEM — Israeli politics looks like a big mess right now. In the past few weeks, three new parties have been launched and one party has kicked out a former partner. More changes are likely, too. It probably will get messier still if Prime Minister...
By Alexandra Pucciarelli
• Published January 10, 2019
Since it came into our lives last year, I’ve had mixed feelings about “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Its jokes sometimes feel like the kind of things we say among other fellow Jews, but not to the rest of the world. The show does have a comforting...
BY RABBI YONASON GOLDSON
• Published January 10, 2019
Your hard drive crashes. You pitch your laptop and buy a new one.You spill merlot on your favorite white shirt. You drop it in the trash.You total your car.You have it towed to the junkyard.You die. Why should those you leave behind treat your body any...
Appreciation for Rehfeld I agree with everything the Jewish Light wrote about [Jewish Federation of St. Louis President and CEO] Andrew Rehfeld in the Dec. 26 editorial “The Remarkable Rehfeld Record.” However, there’s more that I’d like to...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 8, 2019
A great American Jewish jurist once argued against the idea of a “hyphenated American.” He said there was no place in America for immigrants and their children to hold on to differences based on “race or creed.”“[T]o keep alive difference of...
Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish holiday known as the “New Year of the Trees”, begins at sunset on Jan. 20, 2019 and concludes in the evening of Jan. 21. In the 16th century, devotees of the Kabbalah instituted a Tu B'Shevat seder in which fruits and trees...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 3, 2019
“Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”—Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons, November 1947Winston Churchill’s famous quote rings...
By Leon Moss, Kveller via JTA
• Published January 3, 2019
I was edged out on Friday evening. The carefully planned operation was carried out by grandson No. 2, the one with the red hair.“Move over, Pop. I’ll do it,” he said firmly, prodding me in the ribs with a sharp elbow.It’s like this: I say the...
