Editorial | The Journal Sh’ma Falls Silent
For 50 years, Sh’ma was a journal that asked questions and promoted discussion about Judaism and the Jewish world, exploring ideas that challenged conventional,...
Editorial | A New Focus for the Jewish Agency
What has been marketed as a “rebranding” of the 90-year-old Jewish Agency for Israel is more than the cosmetic change that word suggests. At...
Editorial | Elijah Cummings and Morton Mandel Enriched Our Lives
The deaths last week of two prominent men — with very different backgrounds, career paths and areas of involvement and interest — were a...
Editorial | Labor’s Risky New Rule
Last week the Trump administration proposed an expansion of the exemption that allows federal contractors who claim to be acting under principles of religious...
Editorial | DNA Is No Answer
In a ruling last week, Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court made clear that DNA testing cannot be used to answer the religious and politically sensitive...
Editorial | Journalist Gary Rosenblatt’s Legacy
Last week, Gary Rosenblatt, the editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week, announced his retirement. In the world of Jewish journalism, the...
Editorial | A Measles Resurgence
Measles — the childhood scourge that many believed was largely relegated to history — has made a significant resurgence both in Israel and in...
Bridge-Building Philanthropist Dies at 67
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews founder Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who died Feb. 6 at age 67, is being remembered this week by politicians,...
A Change in the NoKo Narrative
“If I have to say I’m sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that gets us to save 30 million lives — it...
The Secret to Unity
Here’s the secret to fostering unity in a Jewish community and for attracting people who have never been involved before: Bring all the rabbis...