This election season started with great promise, and new parties and talented individuals have emerged across the political spectrum. The problem is that this influx hasn’t generated new ideas.
For those of us who closely follow the progress in America in the battles against racism and anti-Semitism, the observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this year has particular relevance.
This past election, the Jewish community lost two lawmakers in the Pennsylvania state legislature who were good friends when it came to supporting school choice programs. To protect these gains in the new legislature, which was sworn in last week, it is crucial that we engage our new legislators and ask them to support educational opportunity with the same vigor...
We are aware that God gives human beings free choice. People may choose good or choose evil. And when they choose evil, all too often the innocent suffer. How can we understand this? How do we understand the death of an innocent child, the massacre of innocents or the destruction in the Shoah?
Sivan 16, 5773
