Once again, the world has been shaken by a mass shooting, this one at the offices of the Capital Gazette, a small but venerated community newspaper serving Annapolis, Md. The alleged gunman had long borne grudges against the newspaper; by the time...
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...
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
• Published June 28, 2018
Charles Krauthammer would have been an inspirational figure even if he hadn’t become a writer and television commentator. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who died on June 21 at the age of 68 laid low as a 22-year-old medical student when a pool...
BY Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael
• Published June 28, 2018
In Parashat Balak, we read a vivid and strange episode in the life of the Israelites. As the Israelites draw near to Moab, the Moabites find themselves terrified of this foreign people approaching their country. The Moabite king, Balak, decides to meet...
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...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 14, 2018
Israelis are sensitive about references to the Holocaust as a basis for the international recognition of a Jewish State at the United Nations in 1947. But one cannot doubt the relationship between the period before and during the Holocaust when Jews were...
