Urgent needs as the shutdown continuesWe are a newly formed group of Jewish gardeners who work to address food security issues among the most vulnerable in our communities by growing fresh produce for food pantries. We are deeply concerned about the...
Does a difference exist between secular and “holy” reasons for keeping our bodies fit?Traditional Jewish thought suggests that we must keep our bodies well for the sake of spiritual pursuits and in order to fulfill mitzvot. Sadly, in today’s modern...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Every year, extremism takes a deadly toll around the world. No region is immune — not the Middle East, not Europe, and not the United States. In 2018, there were at least 50 Americans killed by extremists from different movements.Many...
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...
