Two states would be ‘nightmare’Your analysis in a recent editorial (“Where are the Palestinians?” July 10 edition) that arresting a businessman who attended the Jared Kushner-led summit in Bahrain “is further proof that the Palestinian Authority...

For Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., their timing couldn’t be any better. They are reveling in the victim status that they have achieved due to their confrontation with President Donald Trump, in which he said that the pair...

To describe Rabbi Michal Ken-Tor as a dynamic educator who is bursting with energy and ideas is not an exaggeration. Ken-Tor was born in 1972 in Kibbutz Geva and grew up on Moshav Kfar in the Jezebel Valley. She is the fifth child from a Zionist family...

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...

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....

Israel is in the midst of celebrating its 71st year as an independent modern nation-state — an event well worth celebrating — to note the end of stateless exile in which Jews were at the mercy of other nations. After more than 2,000 years of persecution,...

Peter Beinart was briefly detained in August at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel without any “consistent or objective standard for my detention,” he later wrote in an op-ed.The interrogator’s “standard was whether I planned to cause...

Join the entire St. Louis Jewish community on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. to honor and remember those who have sacrificed for the State of Israel with a special ceremony in the J’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. Then, the following...

Jewish scholars love to write learned articles on what has been referred to as “The Jewish Problem.”  Scholars in Great Britain were once encouraged to write articles about the elephant, which was a favorite feature topic in the media there. One...

I am a rabbi and progressive faith leader in this city who has fought for racial and economic equality for almost two decades. I am also an unapologetic Zionist and a proud supporter of AIPAC.The public perception of AIPAC among my fellow progressives...

AIPAC has long promoted bipartisanship as the key to maintaining broad support for the U.S.-Israel relationship. Members of Congress from both parties regularly attend its annual policy conference, which concluded Tuesday, and the organization’s biggest...