One of the most frustrating challenges in the ongoing fight against anti-Semitism is that the hate comes from so many different directions.

Youngkin was able to take control of the education  issue by framing it in the context of parental involvement in the schools.

We are ready for some good news, or at least a temporary respite from the cultural denigration that has now become an unhappy, exhausting but largely endurable aspect of Jewish life in America.

I have praised and criticized Newsom, both in these pages and elsewhere. But he deserves credit for two actions that may provide a tremendous opportunity for California’s Jewish community and represent important steps forward for the relationships between ethnic, racial and religious communities. 

How did the Vice President of the United States respond to a questioner who suggested that Israel’s efforts to defend its citizens from missile attacks during a war with a terrorist organization was actually a deliberate mass killing designed to destroy an entire people?

While the bullets flying in our direction are metaphorical rather than ballistic, we’ve spent a lot of time recently dodging incoming political missives with the potential to do great damage to the Jewish people and homeland.

It is apparent that even when Biden faces deserved criticism, his allies are quick to dismiss it as predictable attacks from the most fanatical of Trump acolytes. 

Now that the retrospectives and memorials have concluded, and most of us who were fortunate enough not to lose a loved one in the attacks will now put our grief aside for another year or five, when we’re once again reminded that we all have an obligation to join the mourners for whom every day is 9/11.