In a tearful announcement in front of 10 Downing Street, Theresa May, whose brief term in office has been stymied over Brexit, announced last week she would resign as prime minister of the United Kingdom. May said she will formally step down as Conservative...
People always tell us to count our blessings. Rarely, if ever, does anyone tell us to count our curses. After all, who wants to think about all the bad things that have happened because of our action or inaction, much less all the terrible consequences...
Aliyah should be part of the conversation Many readers no doubt shared Dorit Sasson’s assertion that the horrific shooting attack on the Chabad synagogue in Poway “made me feel more vulnerable than I have ever felt before” in her May 15 commentary,...
Not to be outdone in the fervent race to the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, Missouri’s Republican-controlled legislature giddily passed its extreme abortion ban, HB 126, on the final day of the session.
Once signed into law, Missouri will...
With Missouri following Alabama by passing a restrictive law limiting abortion to the first few weeks, and then only to save the life of the mother, a “teachable moment” presents itself: the view of the Jewish religion and culture. Jews and, as...
Donald Trump often behaves in an unpresidential fashion. That said, his misbehavior has been more than matched by the misbehavior of many of his critics during the “Russiagate” affair that has (hopefully) come to an end with the completion of Special...
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...
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...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman
• Published April 4, 2019
Pull up a chair. I have a story to tell. I was traveling around Mount Ararat near the Armenian border on my way to Kurdistan just after the Turks released their grip on the ancient land. You will recognize Mount Ararat from the biblical account of Noah,...
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...
