Newspaper should live up to its nameEric Mink’s latest column (“We still don’t know what’s in the Mueller report,” April 3 edition) requires me to remind the editors that the main word in your name is “Jewish.” You are not the liberal,...
On Shabbat Hagadol, which immediately precedes Passover, we read from the Haftarah of Malachi in which God promises to send Elijah the prophet before the coming of the “great (gadol), awesome day of the Lord” (Malachi 3:23). On the night of the Passover...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published April 11, 2019
Without question, the night of the Passover seder is among the most powerful experiences of the entire year. We daven, sing, eat, discuss, debate and methodically make our way through the Haggadah and a long night filled with rituals, customs and practices...
The latest count of lies and misstatements made by President Donald Trump since he became president about two years ago stands at 9,179 as of March 17. In the first two months of 2019, he averaged 22 false or misleading claims per day, a 33 percent...
By now, you would think we would be numb to it. Every day, across the globe, people die of gunshot wounds. In the United States, an average of 100 people a day are killed by guns, more than 36,000 each year. Hundreds more are shot and injured. Perhaps...
President Donald Trump has had a dizzying week, even by his usual frenetic standards. Consider the following:• Attorney General William Barr released his summary of the key findings of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, ...
“Would you accompany me, Missouri legislator whom I don’t know, to my OB-GYN’s office?” no woman in our state has ever asked.
In all of my reproductive care appointments since I was 18 years old, from contraception and family planning,...
By Rabbi Seth D. Gordon
• Published February 7, 2019
In our youth, many of us did things that, looking back as adults, we are not proud of. Perhaps we stole an inexpensive item(s) from a store, insulted someone, voiced a prejudice, or worse. We may even smile or chuckle as we reminisce; we were kids. But...
BY MAHARAT RORI PICKER NEISS
• Published February 7, 2019
After weeks of recounting stories of the miracles that God performs on behalf of the Israelites — from a small bush aflame but never consumed to plagues that continuously haunt the Egyptian people, the awe-filled phenomenon of the Exodus and the astonishing...
Today, after over six years of service as the president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, I have announced my resignation in order to become President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). I want...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published December 13, 2018
The U.N. General Assembly narrowly defeated a resolution last Thursday that would have condemned Hamas for its terror campaign against Israel. Three days later, a Palestinian gunman opened fire on a group of Jews waiting at a bus stop near the West Bank...
Our sense of security was shaken in late October on that horrible Shabbat morning when a gunman walked into the Tree of Life Congregation in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh and took 11 precious lives.While our sense of security was damaged,...
