Chanukah: The Twitter holiday?
Chanukah is both the most powerful and most precarious of Jewish holidays.
Chanukah is both the most powerful and most precarious of Jewish holidays.
Imagine being the mother of one of the 200,000 people murdered in Syria over the past few years.
I’m repulsed by these anti-Israel groups on college campuses that pretend to care about oppressed people in the Middle East.
There’s a tendency in the Jewish world to look for big solutions to big problems.
What happens when extremism dominates a whole society?
When your ancestors yearned for 19 centuries to return to their homeland of Israel, and you were fortunate enough to be born there but still decide to move to America, it’s natural that somewhere deep inside, you might feel a little guilty.
How do you deal with a future that you know for sure is going to get worse?
It was unsettling to hear Israeli President Reuven Rivlin say last week, “The time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society, with an illness that demands treatment.”
While we were having our meals in the sukkah this year, I kept thinking about another holiday.