Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 12, 2012
How much is to be made of the dustup last week over the Democratic platform flipflop over the exclusion, and then inclusion, of declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? It really depends on who’s talking and who’s listening. The issue was raised...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published September 5, 2012
The Iran issue is omnipresent both in the Jewish State and the American Jewish community. The debate rages on in the news, in communities, in homes. If there’s no more diplomatic progress, should Israel attack Iran unilaterally, and when? Should the...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published August 29, 2012
All the progress that America and Israel have achieved in nurturing gender equality is now in severe peril, thanks to reactionary forces that threaten to drive us back toward the Dark Ages. In Israel, it’s a cowardly fear of ultra-Orthodox Jews who...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 22, 2012
Some view Arab Spring as a gateway toward democratic leadership in a number of Middle East nations. Others are less optimistic, concerned that Islamist fundamentalists will ascend to governance and cause more seismic shifts that will inure to Israel’s...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 15, 2012
In the Hebrew Bible, God tells us, “Behold, I have set before you good and evil, life and death,” and adds, “therefore, choose life!” Within the past 10 days, our nation and the world have witnessed a cascade of horrific episodes in which evil...
An aphorism as ancient as the Middle East itself, the borrowed title of this editorial applies to the dramatic lesson of the horrific attack by Islamic extremists on Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai. This week saw the reports of a brutal attack...
Missouri’s Catholic bishops, champions of Amendment 2 (set for Tuesday’s ballot in Missouri) say the measure is needed because religious values are becoming “marginalized in society.”We don’t mean to be disrespectful to those bishops or other...
It’s been a terrible week for civilized society. The heinous bombing of Israeli citizens traveling in Bulgaria, coupled with the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., demonstrate how low human beings can stoop, when acting out of hate, fear, despair and psychosis.The...
We wonder if Danny Gordis feels a bit like Chief Justice John Roberts this week. Roberts, you may recall, wrote the opinion and cast the deciding vote in the United States Supreme Court decision in late June affirming the constitutionality of most of...
We’ll endeavor to put up information in a broader context because we know that very little news is born at the moment it comes across our wire.— Will McAvoy, HBO’s “The Newsroom,” Episode 3, “The 112th Congress.”Andrew Rehfeld will join...
In the season of Independence Day, it’s always good to revisit this key question: Other than the coincidence that 300 million of us happen to live in one large political subdivision, what makes us all Americans?This week we can reflect on three very...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both claim to be working toward peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestinian problem. Let’s take them at face value for a moment, that they both care about...
