A new report confirms with hard numbers a concern that has persisted since last year’s heated presidential campaign: a rise in both the number and the severity of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States. Everyone concerned needs to take note of...
A dispute involving public money going to religious institutions has ridden on shredded tires from mid-Missouri all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court – with a slight detour courtesy of the state’s new governor.Now that the justices have heard arguments...
One of the hardest tasks that any publication has when it begins a redesign is trying to figure out the best way to combine the most popular qualities of the old format with the new look and feel it wants to present. That’s been the case with every...
President Donald Trump was fully justified in ordering an attack on a Syrian air base that was used to drop deadly sarin gas on innocent men, women and children. We hope that the president will build upon this widely acclaimed action to forge a truly...
In the midst of all of the back and forth among the White House, mainstream media and Congress — alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections, the pending vote on Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court and a host of other issues —...
Within hours of one another, two news events with apparent connections to terrorism created headlines last week. They brought with them the temptation to immediately place blame and responsibility for the too-frequent disruptions of our daily lives, but...
Remember that old bumper sticker that said:“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”If Congress passes the federal budget proposed by the White House last week,...
Clearly, the United States has installed a new sheriff at its mission to the United Nations: Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina.Not since Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose in 1975 to denounce the infamous General Assembly...
The Israeli Knesset last Monday quietly passed an ill-conceived bill that is inconsistent with the democratic values of the Jewish State.The legislation bars entry into Israel by persons who have publicly supported the boycotts, divestments and sanctions...
Almost lost in the whirlwind of news regarding cemetery desecrations and the arrest in St. Louis of a suspect in some of the bomb threats at Jewish community centers is the fact that last month, President Donald Trump held his first face-to-face talks...
In physics, Isaac Newton told us, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That observation certainly applies to the inspirational response to last week’s horrible desecration of the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City.As...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 22, 2017
Never in recent memory has there been such community wide and even international revulsion over an incident like the savage desecration of the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. Even though it was not immediately clear whether the attack was anti-Semitism...
