I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon through one eye, the other glued shut by a stye. This was in the kitchen of our rented bungalow on the New York side of Lake Champlain, where we spent a month every summer. My parents had parked our crappy black-and-white portable TV on the kitchen table,…
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Opinion
First Person
I’m an Orthodox rabbi, and I officiate at LGBTQ weddings
A queer friend of mine from a haredi Orthodox background had posed a query publicly on social media. She had attended a conference on LGBTQ inclusion.…
Analysis
The perils of loving Israel a little too much
It would have been remarkable in any administration: a Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism with appearances by some of the president’s top guns, including…
Local Voice
AB 392 must become law. My black son’s life is at stake.
The Talmud teaches that “whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” AB 392, a bill just passed by the California Legislature…
Opinion
The Chabad Rebbe died 25 years ago, but his impact lives on
When the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, died in July 1994, I was one of many journalists in the Jewish media who did not see how the…
Letters
Letters: Flags, immigrants, Holocaust, etc.
Fly Israeli flag with pride Lois Pearlman suggested not bringing a rainbow version of the Israeli flag to a gay pride march, out of sensitivity to…
Local Voice
California Democrats need to stop demonizing Israel
At the California Democratic Party State Convention in late May and early June, a number of biased resolutions targeting Israel were considered and some…
Opinion
Intermarriage is not a 'second Holocaust'
Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz’s recent tone-deaf declaration that intermarriage is akin to a “second Holocaust” was shocking and shameful, and…
Editorial
Violent anti-Semitism is a clear and present danger in our own backyard
Updated with new information July 12 at 9:30 a.m. In the matter of Ross Farca, the Concord man arrested last month on felony charges of making homicidal…