The latest count of lies and misstatements made by President Donald Trump since he became president about two years ago stands at 9,179 as of March 17. In the first two months of 2019, he averaged 22 false or misleading claims per day, a 33 percent...
BY BRIANNA GOODLIN & DANIEL B. JEYDEL
• Published March 28, 2019
Before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stage at the AIPAC policy conference next week, he will have received a letter from hundreds of concerned millennial Jewish Zionists from across North America.As millennials on the frontlines of Israel...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published March 28, 2019
It was a day for Israelis to cheer the unprecedented degree of closeness between their nation and its sole superpower ally. Using his favorite form of communication, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted a clear intention to discard yet another longstanding...
By now, you would think we would be numb to it. Every day, across the globe, people die of gunshot wounds. In the United States, an average of 100 people a day are killed by guns, more than 36,000 each year. Hundreds more are shot and injured. Perhaps...
BY LAURA E. ADKINS, JTA
• Published March 28, 2019
Gallup’s 2019 World Affairs Survey confirms something that’s held true for decades: Most American voters, whether Democrat or Republican, support and sympathize with Israel.Reading the report amid the national uproar over Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s...
President Donald Trump has had a dizzying week, even by his usual frenetic standards. Consider the following:• Attorney General William Barr released his summary of the key findings of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, ...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 28, 2019
As home to an estimated 500,000 Jews, the third-largest Jewish population of any nation after Israel and the United States, France has always had a combination of a protective policy by officials of all mainstream parties and a vicious strain of anti-Semitism...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 21, 2019
When historians look back to President Donald Trump’s performance last week as he announced a national emergency to build his border wall, few will judge it as inspirational. His stream of consciousness, ranging from Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published February 7, 2019
For more than two years, there has been an alarming spike in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric within far left factions of the Progressive movement. Such sentiment has placed great strains on the coalition of groups that make up the bulk of the Democratic...
Appreciation for Rehfeld I agree with everything the Jewish Light wrote about [Jewish Federation of St. Louis President and CEO] Andrew Rehfeld in the Dec. 26 editorial “The Remarkable Rehfeld Record.” However, there’s more that I’d like to...
BY RABBI YONASON GOLDSON
• Published January 10, 2019
Your hard drive crashes. You pitch your laptop and buy a new one.You spill merlot on your favorite white shirt. You drop it in the trash.You total your car.You have it towed to the junkyard.You die. Why should those you leave behind treat your body any...
By Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published January 3, 2019
Parashat Vaera, which will be read this coming Shabbat in Jewish communities the world-over, opens with God preparing Moshe Rabbenu, Moses our great teacher, to encounter/confront the Pharaoh of Egypt, and ends with the graphic description of the Makkot,...
