Opinion

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge

The video and pictures of the tragic collapse of the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are horrific. Early on March 27, an...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Unmasked

For more than two decades, we have followed the political career of Chris Van Hollen, the junior U.S. senator from Mayland. From 2003 to...

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, OBM

Joe Lieberman, a former longtime U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the first Jewish American nominated to a major party’s national ticket as the...

The Fire on the Altar; The Fire Inside Us

By Clifford S. Fishman This week’s Torah portion is Tzav: Leviticus 6:1 - 8:36 Fire is a powerful force — and a powerful symbol. According to a...

The Missing Man of Kissufim

By Gilad Skolnick What do you yearn for? For Shlomo Mansour, it was not a flashy career or riches, just a peaceful and happy life. In...

Out of All the Israeli Hostages in Gaza, the One I Think about Most...

By Jane Gabin When I first met Keith Siegel, he was the last of four siblings still at home. He was in high school, and...

160 Days of War: What Have We Learned?

By Yael Eckstein It’s been more than 160 days since Hamas terrorists invaded my homeland, Israel, the only home for the Jewish people, leaving behind...

War Is Hell. Everywhere.

By Ben Cohen “War,” the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after...

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

On March 20, nine Senate and House lawmakers announced the initiation of a process to move Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History...

Presidential Candidates Trolling for Dollars

At a time when all eyes in the political world and beyond are focused on the precarious financial circumstances of former president and presumptive...