Voices

Montgomery County confronts antisemitism

Barbara Goldberg Goldman | Special to WJW No community is immune from hate crimes, not even Montgomery County, long-considered an enlightened bastion for embracing and...

Jews and Muslims must be there for each other

By Margaret Johnson During an online discussion about the lobbying effort underway to encourage the Montgomery County Council to pass a resolution adopting the definition...

Kanye, in context

By Rabbi Aaron Miller In the early years of my rabbinate, antisemitism rarely crossed my mind. I saw how antisemitism was rising in Europe, and...

Does Trump hate Jews, or just ‘bad Jews’?

Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA In her new book “Bad Jews,” Emily Tamkin frames recent American Jewish communal politics as a series of clashes between antagonists...

Both the left and the right have turned on the Jews

By Ian Haworth I’m a British Jew who works in the world of American conservative media, and the behavior of the conservative movement over the...

The overturning of ‘Roe’ threatened our religious rights. Trigger bans stripped us of them

By Rabbi Hara Person and Rabbi Kelly Levy Indiana. Oklahoma. Tennessee. Texas. These are just a few of the states that have been most recently...

Judah Samet was a mensch well before he survived the Tree of...

Beth Kissileff | JTA It is rare that one can say attending a funeral was an uplifting experience. Yet the funeral for Judah Samet —...

Surprised by Joy

Rabbi Raymond Apple C.S. Lewis wrote a book about his early life titled “Surprised by Joy.” The name is from a sonnet by William Wordsworth...

Campus newspapers and the Cognitive war against Israel

Richard L. Cravatts For at least two decades, university campuses have been roiled by anti-Israel activism, manifested by Israeli Apartheid Weeks, BDS resolutions rammed through...

Should Israel lead the fight against antisemitism?

Ben Cohen The just-published Annual Assessment of the Jerusalem-based Jewish People Policy Institute makes for sobering reading when it comes to the section of antisemitism. It’s...