Opinion

By Marcia Bronstein I spent an amazing week at Yiddish School at the Yiddish Book Center (YBC) last year, along with 41 fellow students from...

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...

By Rabbi Shmuel Goldin The transition could not be more abrupt. Behind us is the month of Tishrei — the busiest, most eventful, ritually richest month...

Bibi’s Achievements Regarding “Netanyahu Announces He Is Unable to Form a Government” (jewishexponent.com): Bibi made many positive achievements during his tenure. He’s at least partially...

By Aaron Bernstein Bernie Madoff is certainly the most infamous of the residents at North Carolina’s Butner Federal Correctional Facility, but, scanning the congregation at...

By Adam Garber I’m walking through a forest of metal pillars in Alabama with Jews from across the country. The spiral of 6-foot rusted monuments...

By Rabbi Jonathan Perlman I have been the rabbi of the New Light Congregation in Pittsburgh for nine years. This year, at Kol Nidre services...

By Yoni Ari Like many Israeli Americans, my family grew up in Israel, but three years ago we moved to the United States due to...

Rabbi’s Opinion Piece Too Promotional I am not a member of Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El, but I have attended services there many times and find...

By Marcia Bronstein The massacre at the Tree of Life building last year left American Jews feeling raw and vulnerable. That it happened in our...