A self-deprecating poem once branded St. Louis as “first in shoes, first in booze and last in the American League.” A lot has changed over the years. St. Louis has lost some iconic shoe companies and is no longer numero uno in footwear. Anheuser-Busch,...
One of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy, the separation of church and state, is facing new assaults on the public-school front.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2017 in the case out of Columbia, Mo., known as Trinity Lutheran that tax money...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published January 10, 2019
Bitterly divisive politics in Washington and Jerusalem threatens to bring governmental institutions to a standstill, stalling or derailing any prospects for a new peace initiative. The wrangling casts a cloud of hyperpartisanship in the Israeli Knesset...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published November 29, 2018
Maybe you missed it if you were celebrating with family and friends last week but, during the holiday rush, President Donald Trump managed to call attention to himself in usual ways. Asked what he was most thankful for, he said he was most thankful for...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published September 27, 2018
The longstanding controversy over Israel, Zionism and Palestinian rights has resurfaced on an old battleground: New Jersey.And in the process, it is reviving another age-old question: Is Judaism a religion, an ethnicity or both?The issue, first reported...
Midterm elections are attracting more attention than usual this year and, as they approach, the focus on the possibility of voter fraud is growing sharper. So is the attention to efforts that block legitimate voters from going to the polls. Two recent...
For decades, Denmark’s heroic resistance to the Holocaust and its protection of its Jewish population have been held up as shining examples of bravery and backbone. When the Nazis invaded and occupied Denmark, King Christian was said to have put on...
The United States has rightly withdrawn from the United Nations Human Rights Council, with U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it a “cesspool of political bias.” She added, accurately, that the Geneva-based council is a “hypocritical and self-serving...
In the wake of an executive order that defused the self-inflicted immigration crisis, an initial impulse could be to say that all’s well that ends well. Unfortunately, all is far from well, the issue is far from ended and the negative impulses that...
