JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published September 20, 2018
For several months, actions and statements regarding Israel by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party, have been criticized as not only unfair to the Jewish State but a thinly veiled effort to denigrate Britain’s Jewish community.Now,...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published September 13, 2018
This is the day of the world’s beginning; now we recall creation’s first day. On this day the fate of nations is in the balance — for war or peace, for famine or plenty ... life and death are in the balance. Every mortal’s record is set...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 5, 2018
Sometimes it seems like bad ideas never go away; they just retreat from the public consciousness, only to resurface again and again.That’s what happened last week, when the Post-Dispatch reported that Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general and Republican...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 30, 2018
A Legacy of Honor and Courage…Sen. John McCain knew he was dying of an aggressive form of brain cancer when he published his affecting memoir “The Restless Wave.” With characteristic McCain modesty, he said he was grateful to have been “a bit...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published August 23, 2018
At this month’s march in Washington called to mark the anniversary of last year’s deadly event in Charlottesville, Va., one of the counterprotesters — who greatly outnumbered a paltry crowd of marchers — carried a sign with this message:“I can’t...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published August 16, 2018
August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published August 16, 2018
The White House has made good on its promise to reinstate even harsher sanctions against Iran in the aftermath of the confusing disconnect between President Donald Trump’s own rhetoric and key members of his intelligence, foreign policy and security...
We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...
Outside of sending American troops into harm’s way, perhaps no decision by a president of the United States has more lasting potential effect than nominating a justice for the Supreme Court. When Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often has been the decisive...
It is highly regrettable that the Israeli Parliament approved the controversial Nation-State bill as a Basic Law, which gives it a constitutional status. The bill contains some established Zionistic features which are at best superfluous and some troubling...
Whoever thought, in their worst nightmares, that they would see the president of the United States appear onstage with his Russian counterpart and say he believed the word of Russia over the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies?Yet that was the...
A collective worldwide sigh of relief greeted the incredibly good news that after 17 days, all 12 members of the Thai soccer team and their coach, along with a brave physician, have been safely removed from deep inside a water-soaked cave in northern...
