How ‘ceasefire’ became a dirty word, even to some progressive groups
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Late last month, Jacob Frey, the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis, vetoed his city council’s resolution endorsing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas…
Opinion
OP/ED: Hamas Uses Star Wars to Invert the Truth
By Adam Girvitz (Calgary) – There is a great disturbance in the force. I have felt it. We recently bore witness to Hamas propaganda films…
Rabbi Mark Glickman: A plea for connection
by Rabbi Mark Glickman (Calgary) -“Rabbi, in my circles, Zionism is a bad word. What does the term Zionism mean to you?” The question came…
The best Jewish books I read in 2023
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish…
The pro-Israel case for a negotiated end to the war in Gaza
by Rabbi Jill Jacobs (JTA) — First thing every morning, I open Israeli news sites, dreading what I will see: more soldiers killed in action,…