Our Jewish community is rightly concerned about Israel on campus. Serious challenges face pro-Israel students around the country today, and much ink has been spilled about the topic.
What a new school year this is turning out to be.
Growing up in Canada as a Sephardic Jew, I missed one of the great moments of American Jewish history — the long, turbulent and ultimately successful movement to free Soviet Jewry, which culminated in the release of political prisoner Natan Sharansky on Feb. 11, 1986.
I joined the staff of the Jewish Journal in mid-November 2005, a seasoned journalist.
It is hard to think of anything that has altered Jewish life more radically than the inclusion of women in the rabbinate.
It was 1984, he was campaigning for prime minister. I was a young journalist, recently arrived in Jerusalem from San Francisco.
Shimon Peres, Israel’s larger-than-life statesman, global ambassador and Nobel Peace Prize winner who impacted every significant moment of the state of Israel since its birth in 1948, including the buildup of its defense forces and its search for peace, was a naïve man.
At tashlich, I always find a place on the edge of the circle in whose center stands my wife.
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is an opportunity to stop and ponder how much we love to forget or forget to love.
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