Opinion

Engaging Millennials Having read quite a bit about millennials’ disdain for the synagogue model and financial barriers to synagogue membership, I don’t believe the one-year-free...

By Kylie Ora Lobell / JTA Whenever a celebrity decides to convert to Judaism, headlines like this abound: “Karlie Kloss confirms conversion to Judaism to marry...

By Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal Birth is G-d saying you matter. I learned that from my first teacher of Torah, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, a scribe for the...

By Joshua Runyan Almost two decades into the 21st century, few people — and they’re getting fewer with each passing day — deny that the...

By Mandie Winston As I joined countless others watching the devastation wrought by Hurricane Dorian on the Bahamas and parts of the southeastern United States,...

Trump Is Not an Anti-Semite Myron Bassman falsely and absurdly claims President Donald Trump is an anti-Semite (Kvetch ’N’ Kvell, Aug. 15). Trump has moved the...

By Harris Sokoloff Whether one praises or condemns the United States’ immigration policies, once immigrants arrive in our communities we need to attend to two...

By Aryeh Ho Earlier this year, my wife attended a program on Jewish education. The presenter made a seemingly harmless joke: “A couple stopped having...

By Jonathan Tobin Recent statements from President Donald Trump about American Jews “being disloyal” set off a firestorm of criticism from Jewish groups. It was...

By Michael Hersch A central theme of the story of the Jewish people is liberation from slavery — the experience of being held against one’s...