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A street view of a mainly ultra-Orthodox area in Borough Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 1, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash 90.

American Jewry’s days of reckoning

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On Sept. 29, U.S. President Donald Trump set out his nationalist political philosophy in his address before the U.N. General Assembly. Arguing that the nation-state is the best guarantor of human freedom and liberty,...
Steps outside of the San Diego Jewish Academy. Credit: Courtesy.

If you lower it, will they come? The high costs of Jewish day school

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When students returned to the San Diego Jewish Academy just a few weeks ago, they were greeted not only by new teachers, but new classmates as well. “For the coming school year, we have a...
Anne Neuberger. Credit: National Security Agency.

Orthodox woman to lead National Security Agency’s new cybersecurity division

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An Orthodox Jewish woman has been picked to lead the National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate, effective Oct. 1. Anne Neuberger, a 10-year NSA veteran who lives in Baltimore, helped found the U.S. Cyber Command,...
Memorial candles during the ceremony marking Israel's Remembrance Day at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on May 7, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

First-ever Memorial Day ceremony held for Orthodox Jewish soldiers

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For the first time, a Memorial Day ceremony was held in Jerusalem on Tuesday night honoring the memories of Orthodox Jewish soldiers who laid down their lives in service to their country, as well...
Members of the Reform movement and Hebrew Union College confront police and security guards while trying to enter a mixed men and women prayer area at the public square in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Nov. 16, 2017.

Jewish tensions heat up over Western Wall prayer space

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A pair of Israeli cabinet members and a Knesset member have in recent weeks inflamed tensions between the Jewish state and leaders of American Jewish organizations by expressing opposition or even disdain towards supporters...

Orthodoxy should be able to evolve

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We all know that joke about the captain who saved Robinson Crusoe being shown around his island. Crusoe shows him his two synagogues. Two synagogues? For one person? “Yes. That one, that one I...