Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 1, 2017
In the wake of last Friday’s observance of Holocaust Memorial Day, coinciding with the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, a disturbing report demonstrated that many of the the survivors of that dark time...
I have a problem with the way that our country covers “The News.”Ever since CNN turned the news into a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week program, things have gotten out of hand.Media coverage sensationalizes individual people — from Casey Anthony to George...
NEW YORK -- An atheist organization says it will unveil a Hebrew-language billboard calling God a “myth” near a Brooklyn hasidic enclave. The group American Atheists says it will unveil a billboard Monday in hasidic-dominated South Williamsburg. The...
Casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson reportedly has given a “substantial” new donation to a group supporting Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination. Adelson gave the donation to Winning Our Future, an independent committee, or...
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "destabilizing." “It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an interview...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Israel's test of a missile defense system was declared a "major milestone" in its efforts to establish viable barriers to a missile strike. The test of a joint Israeli-American system was conducted Friday morning over the Mediterranean...
Baptist Bishop Eddie Long has apologized for a church service in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and called a king. Last week during a service at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., Ralph Messer, a Messianic Jew and self-described...
WASHINGTON -- Israel Project founder and president Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi said she will leave the group by July 1. Mizrahi, who founded the group ten years ago, first announced she would step down in 2007 for family reasons, but rescinded that decision...
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has denied involvement in the decision to hold a special Republican caucus in a Nevada county to accommodate Sabbath-observant Jewish voters. Clark County last week moved its Feb. 4 caucus to 7 p.m., six hours after the state's...
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul reportedly signed off on racially charged newsletters in the 1990s, despite denying his involvement. Paul said recently that he was not involved in the writing of and did not read the "Ron Paul Survival Report"...
