Why I still hate the Iran deal
David Suissa
March 16, 2016
The divisive debate over the Iran nuclear deal, which consumed so much of our energy last year, feels like a distant memory.
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Challah, wine, Torah … and Trump?
David Suissa
March 9, 2016
For the past few months, whenever we’ve hosted guests at our Shabbat table, I’ve repeated different versions of the same joke: “I’d like to thank everyone at our table for not saying the name Donald Trump once during the last hour. What a miracle.”
Tikkun Olam Nation is a deeper Israel
David Suissa
March 2, 2016
Public relations is all about putting your best foot forward.
How do we regain black-Jewish love?
David Suissa
February 24, 2016
Of all the complicated issues running through American Jewish life, one of the most complicated is surely the relationship between Jews and African-Americans, which has frayed in recent years. A key question for both communities as we go forward is: How can we inject more love into the relationship?
Chaim being Chaim
David Suissa
February 3, 2016
My friend Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is a nutty-professor type who is impossible to describe. One reason is that he has a mix of traits that don’t usually go together.
Calling out anti-Semitism
David Suissa
January 27, 2016
If you discriminate against the only Jewish country in the world, is that anti-Semitism?
What if I’m wrong?
David Suissa
January 6, 2016
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.
Homeless in Koreatown
David Suissa
January 5, 2016
You can’t knock on a tent, so I had to yell. I wanted to meet the people inside the tent and hear their story.
Hier and Hier: From yeshiva boy to global storyteller
David Suissa
December 30, 2015
The longer I live in America, the more fascinated I become with the story of American Jewry — how a wandering and persecuted people discovered a free and open nation and have given so much back.
The One-Second Intifada
David Suissa
December 18, 2015
There are different kinds of fears. Some fears are specific — you can stumble into a dangerous neighborhood, receive a bad diagnosis from a doctor or get caught up in a legal battle. Remove the circumstance, and the fear goes away.
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