It was my first assignment as an Israeli diplomat. I had been posted as the deputy consul general at the Israeli Consulate in Shanghai, China. I had known the city to have a vibrant and storied history of being the focus of competing empires, a center of international trade and entertainment. But one story I…
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Opinion
Letters
Jewish and Black; What would MLK think?; BDS isn't antisemitic; etc.
Jewish, Black and Jan. 6 I want to thank Tova Ricardo for her extremely thoughtful, reflective and beautifully articulated article on being Black and…
First Person
Joe Biden’s inauguration was replete with anxiety, and a lot of it was Jewish
I walked to President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Authority closed 13 downtown stations Jan. 15-21, so I couldn’t…
Analysis
From California to DC, disparate far-right factions are unified by anger
Wearing a black cowboy hat and a bandana covering most of his face, “Odin,” a soft-spoken Proud Boys member, was getting choked up. He stood on a flatbed…
Editorial
A new era, and what we take into it from Jan. 6
As neo-Nazis, antisemites, deluded conspiracy theorists and determined seditionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the world looked on in horror.…
Opinion
American Jewish values are on the line in a divided nation
For much of American Jewish history, Jews have celebrated the United States as exceptional, a country different and better for Jews than most any other in…
Opinion
With our nation in peril, fascism demands a Jewish response
For more than 50 years, my father and his three Jewish buddies debated politics during their Saturday wine group. The question “Is it good for the Jews?”…
Local Voice
The irrelevance of day school Jewish studies, and how to fix it
At his last appearance at Kehillah Jewish High School before his death, San Francisco Jewish philanthropist Warren Hellman quoted New York Jewish…
Opinion
Being a Black Jewish woman in America on Jan. 6
The first day I moved back to my college campus, I, a Black Jewish woman, watched the news as the U.S. Capitol building was overtaken by white…