Decades after it validated the shameful internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court has finally overturned its ruling in the case of Korematsu v. United States.Sadly, though, that welcome move comes in the context of its...
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...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 13, 2017
Now that President Donald Trump has threatened to cruelly upend the lives of 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, it’s up to Congress to make sure their dreams to stay in this country become reality.We say that Trump...
By Jan Garden Castro, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 21, 2016
During the 1930s, few people saw that a global depression, mass migrations and extremist ideologies in Germany and Russia foreshadowed war. “Modern Girls” explores this era along with ways of being Jewish and being “modern” that are relevant today.As...
By Elli Fischer, Jewish Ideas Daily
• Published July 11, 2012
Migrants in search of freedom or economic opportunity are inevitably attracted to developed countries; no less inevitably, some citizens react negatively, even violently, as neighborhoods change and cheap labor threatens livelihoods. Historically, the...
Is it just us, or are some of Missouri’s legislators seeking to make Missouri the most hateful state in the union? In recent months, members of the state legislature have put forward bills that would: • Prevent schools from punishing kids who bully...
JERUSALEM -- Hundreds of South Sudanese migrants and their Israeli supporters protested against the migrant's imminent deportation to their fledgling new country. The protest Saturday night in Tel Aviv was met with a counter protest by city residents....
