A paper is to reading what Shabbat is to the rest of the week. We can slow down and savor the content. Of course, printing and distributing a community paper week after week is not cheap.

With the kind of year we’ve been through, as we prepare for this great American holiday I’ve been thinking about a flip side to gratitude, one that’s not as cheerful or innocent.

On U.S. college campuses, the oppressed victims are not Palestinians but Jewish faculty and students, and the oppressors are not Jews but the overwhelming majority of faculty who sympathize with Palestinians and indoctrinate students to hate Israel.

Democrats can continue their resistance to Trump and hold his feet to the fire, but that won’t be enough. What they need is what our tradition calls heshbon hanefesh, “an accounting of the soul.”

“Tragic Awakening” advances an idea we may have heard before, but it does so in a fresh and provocative way that makes it uniquely relevant to our times.

The Democrats in the Trump era lost sight of their country because they couldn’t see beyond their smug little world.

These elections are also a repudiation of the censorious woke movement. I’m hoping for a more freewheeling and less fragile America; an America where free and open debate will return on even the most sensitive of issues.

Will the legacy media have the courage to look in the mirror and admit they went way too far in politicizing their journalism?

The potent mix of fear and anger that has marked this election season has reached a peak on Election Day. It shouldn’t surprise us, then, if it feels as if a civic volcano is about to erupt.