Back-to-back Israeli holidays are exhausting – and emotionally manipulative
by Elana Sztokman TEL AVIV (JTA) — Wednesday night (May 8) was one of the hardest nights on the Israeli calendar. In that hazy space…
Opinion
In the wake of another deadly synagogue shooting, we need Holocaust education more than ever
by Janice Weinman, Ellen Hershkin (JTA) — On the Shabbat morning of April 27, Hadassah member Lori Gilbert-Kaye was murdered while celebrating Passover at the Chabad…
The Poway shooting exposes the fractured state of our communal discourse
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Here’s what we know about the shooter who took the life of a worshipper at a San-Diego area Chabad and…
The liberation fight for Soviet Jews was a miracle. Most of us didn’t know about it.
by Izabella Tabarovsky (JTA) — In 1989, as the Soviet bloc was falling apart at the seams, the sea parted for our family, and we,…
Is ‘goy’ a slur?
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — My seders, like most, drew to a close with the annual cringe-fest known as “Sh’foch Hamatcha,” in which everyone stands…