No matter how hard we try and how many surveys we show, Americans will always have a hard time seeing Jews as powerless victims in need of ads on the Super Bowl.
Everywhere I turned was another kiosk selling either sticky sweet things or tourist trinkets. I was in tacky heaven and, somehow, it felt great.
The disease in academia today is not free speech; it’s speech for some but not for all.
I’ve seen lots of great scenes in movies, but rarely one that has held me like that scene at the prison yard.
If we’re a people of stories, and stories bond our community, it feels right to include those stories that are closest to us. Sinai Temple has given us a model.
Here’s my wish for Holocaust Remembrance: Just as we remember the Jews who perished, let’s also remember the Jews who stood up and rebuilt.
At this point, all sides must agree that the crisis itself has gone too far and it’s time to de-escalate. What our country needs most is to start healing.
The Jewish story in America is marked by an aspiration to thrive and contribute, not by a need to defend ourselves.
Trump is a narcissist with a deep hole inside of him that can only be filled with spectacular demonstrations of his power. Pretty much any action he has taken can fit that lens.
A passionate Zionist and renowned scientist shows us that “fighting words” don’t have to look like fighting words.
