Voices

The name of the game: conflation, false equivalency and political expediency

Barbara Goldberg Goldman Gearing up for the 2024 election cycle, silly season on Capitol Hill is before us. Some say it has never left. But...

To be a (Visa)-free People

By Scott Lasensky Although the klieg lights of the U.S.-Israel alliance typically spotlight peacemaking, politics and defense cooperation, the most consequential issue on the agenda...

Why the Pro-Settler Right Hates Israel’s Justice System So Much

  By Susie Gelman As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government places the Israeli Supreme Court in the crosshairs, concerned supporters of Israel, from the Biden...

A land where people are mowed down by gunmen is not free

By Abigail Leibowitz If Francis Scott Key were to rise from the dead and visit us, he would see the opposite of a “land of...

With Israel’s Democracy In Danger, We Must Not Silence Critics

By Rabbi Michael Rose Knopf As a new far-right government takes power in Israel, a debate among Jewish Americans has erupted about what it means...

A year after Colleyville, let’s continue to prioritize Jewish security

By Gil Preuss Jan. 15 marked one year since Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three of his congregants were held hostage in their synagogue, Congregation Beth...

Virginia’s template in the fight against antisemitism

By Eric Fusfield When Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an executive order establishing a Commission to Combat Anti-Semitism on his first day in office...

Prayers for Damar Hamlin

By Rabbi Charles Arian I had never heard the name Damar Hamlin until last Monday night when I noticed a lot of my Facebook friends...

What I see looking back at 2022

To end the year, we asked community members to offer their thoughts as they look back at 2022. What stands out? What looked important...

What I see looking back at 2022

To end the year, we asked community members to offer their thoughts as they look back at 2022. What stands out? What looked important...