Passover
The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans
Israel held elections under the cloud of its leader’s possible indictment. The world’s far right and its far left have found common cause in their hatred…
Local Voice
Our community's harassment problem
This piece first appeared in Jewish Currents. Jewish communal institutions and nonprofits have a well-documented donor problem: A small group of older,…
Letters
Airbnb isn't boycotting Israel; Trump right about Golan; etc.
Airbnb not boycotting Israel Rob Gloster quotes Gerald Steinberg as saying that Airbnb’s announcement that it was delisting 200 property listings in West…
Editorial
BimBam’s closure is a loss for all of us
Sometimes worthy enterprises, from both the nonprofit and the corporate worlds, do not survive over the long haul. That’s always a pity. But when a Jewish…
Youth Voice
I do not speak, but I am listening
When I was small, people often spoke about me. They spoke as if I wasn’t there at meetings where important decisions were being made about my life and…
Analysis
For Israelis abroad, elections start with a scramble for airplane tickets
Like many voters in democratic national elections, I almost always hope that whoever is elected will be able to serve out their full term — even if they…
Local Voice
The dangers of the dual loyalty charge
At the end of February, when Rep. Ilhan Omar accused American Jews of dual loyalty, to the United States and to the State of Israel, many Jewish former…
Opinion
When Canary Mission came for me, my hometown JCRC had my back
In February, a journalist named Aisha Sultan published a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailing the experience that I and a student named Shaadie…
Jewish World
Venezuela is a friend of the Jews. Don’t abandon her now.
Silence, everyone is silent. We were silent about the genocide in Rwanda, about the war in Syria, and now once again we do not speak out as the Venezuelan…