Opinion

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...

This is Our ‘Esther Moment’

By Wayne Pines In a few days we will hear the Megillah tell the story of Queen Esther, Mordechai and Haman. In fourth-century Persia, when...

The Rot on Our Campuses

By Sarah N. Stern Antisemitism has long been described as a sign of sociocultural rot that corrodes its host society from within. This rot afflicts...

The Clock Is Ticking. Our Hostages Must Come Home.

By Adi Shachar Simchat Torah was supposed to be a joyful celebration where the Haran, Avigdori, Shoham and Kipnis families came together in Kibbutz Be’eri. Instead,...