Conservative movement doubles down on intermarriage and its rabbis ask why
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) — “It doesn’t help.” “I don’t know how it happened or why it happened.” “The most common response I’m…
Opinion
Opinion: The Conservative movement can, and should, welcome the intermarried
By Bradley Shavit Artson, Arnold Eisen, Julie Schonfeld and Steven Wernick (JTA) — Contemporary Jewish life is graced by extraordinary blessing: We are the heirs…
Opinion: Harvey Weinstein shows us how perpetrators pose as victim
By Ruti Regan (JTA) — In an interview with The Daily Beast, George Clooney described Harvey Weinstein as a very powerful man with a tendency to hit…
Rabbi Kliel Rose: Teshuvah is more than just saying sorry
By Rabbi Kliel Rose Rabbi Kliel Rose offered a Dvar Torah about Teshuvah at Beth Shalom Synagogue in Edmonton during the Kol Nidre (opening) service…
op/ed: Billy Joel wore a yellow Jewish star. Thanks, but the trend should stop there.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — Few artifacts of the Holocaust move me like the yellow star. Homely and seemingly innocuous, they sit in…