Editor’s Note: With the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo 11 lunar mission and the Woodstock musical festival this summer, Jewish Light editorial writers Robert A. Cohn, 79, and Dale Singer, 70, take a break from crafting a traditional editorial to look...

At the beginning of my career, I encountered a very religious, Hasidic woman in one of the hospitals associated with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in which I provided pastoral care to Jewish patients from the world over. She had come to the Mayo...

Summer break is a good time to pause and reflect on America’s schools. Our K-12 institutions have come in for constant criticism as inferior to schools in many other countries. In contrast, American higher education generally has been considered the...

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz’s recent tone-deaf declaration that intermarriage is akin to a “second Holocaust” was shocking and shameful, and desecrates the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust. While Peretz, who leads the Jewish...

Americans, and Jews in particular, feel rightly indignant by the many casual references applied to the Holocaust in contemporary culture. Many feel, with much justification, that it’s blasphemous to make simplistic analogies between sequestering children...

Mad magazine is on life support, and I can’t say I’m either surprised or all that sad about it. DC Entertainment announced last week that the satirical magazine will stop publishing new content. It was like hearing about a beloved old relative who...

This week’s portion opens onto the mystery mitzvah of the Torah: the red heifer, the little red cow, parah adumah. We have a category of Torah mystery mitzvahs called chukkot — the reasons remain undeciphered. I’m exhausted by the reasons given...

Missouri’s abortion lawThe recent abortion law passed by the Missouri Legislature and signed by Gov. Mike Parson, which prohibits an abortion after eight weeks and does not allow an exception for incest and rape, is an egregious travesty.The law would...

Kudos to the Jewish Light for several inspiring articles written last month: Eric Berger’s “Move-in day approaching at Covenant” on June 13; an editorial on “Fulfilling the Covenant” on June 20; and Ellen Futterman’s “Couple gets second...

A recent economic summit conference in Bahrain was designed to further efforts toward peaceful dialogue among Jews, Muslims and Christians. But as Rabbi Marc Schneier, principal organizer of the meeting, told a St. Louis audience recently, the absence...

JERUSALEM — Growing up, everyone seemed to have a “Rebbe story.” The Lubavitcher Rebbe was an outsized character. He led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for over 40 years until his death in 1994 and changed the face of Judaism across the world. Some...

I’m tired. This is a common sentiment shared by many Jewish students across campus at the University of California, Berkeley.Before continuing, I would like to emphasize that I am just one voice, one student in an extremely diverse Jewish community....