How the US perpetuates Palestinian violence
The U.S. State Department welcomed the first night of Passover with an admonition against violence.
“We are closely monitoring events in Jerusalem during this sacred holiday period for Jews, Muslims and Christians,” read the official...
Tracking the Trail of Terror
Terror attacks in Israel are so alarming that the first fatal assault could well have inspired a copycat crime 5,400 miles west — in Lakewood, N.J.
Four people, all reportedly Orthodox Jews, were injured when...
A revived Iran deal is bad news for democracy
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a salutary reminder of the lack of restraints facing authoritarian regimes when they decide to go to war, as well as the inability of the democratic nations confronting...
Freedom isn’t possible without a nation
It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is...
Let’s talk about the freedom to live in security
It wasn’t until Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker heard the click of the gun that he realized something terrible was happening at Temple Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. The seemingly homeless man who claimed he was...
Aliyah Day: The mission isn’t complete
Israel’s Aliyah Day, which is marked in the Hebrew month of Cheshvan in honor of the original aliyah, when the people of Israel crossed the Jordan River, was added to the modern calendar a few...
Is ‘Never Again’ an empty promise?
Growing up as a Jew in traumatized post-Holocaust Germany, I have been haunted by the imperative of “Never Again.” As the Russian army retreats from areas north of Kyiv and we are collectively getting a...
A plague of media disinformation
It turns out that The Atlantic magazine did a better job explaining the problem of disinformation than even those planning its recent conference on the subject held at the University of Chicago could have hoped. The...
Fear terrorism, not the Israelis defending against it
At a Tel Aviv café on Monday morning, I overheard a couple talking about the terrorist surge responsible for the fact that the normally packed establishment was as relatively empty as the adjacent Carmel...
Summer Lee: More Like Winter for Pittsburgh’s Jewish Voters
Congressional candidate Summer Lee warned Pittsburgh Jews that they cannot trust her if she is elected next November to represent the city and some of its suburbs.
Lee did not issue her warning in stark...