Category: Opinion

By Jeanette Friedman , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — The director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust p

By Daniel Hemel , JTA News & Features OXFORD, England (JTA) - Long before Larry Craig pleaded guilty to "disorderly conduct," American Jewish

By Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectua

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach , JTA News & Features Noah Feldman was a brilliant, Orthodox Jewish Rhodes scholar who arrived in Oxford in 1992 in m

By Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg , Special to JTNews The customs we observe on the day of Tisha B'Av are strikingly similar to those of an avel, a mou

By Gidi Grinstein , JTA News & Features TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Hamas coup in Gaza may seem like a victory for Iran and its followers, who now ha

By Daniel Pipes , Special to JTNews The Hamas victory over Fatah in Gaza on June 14 has great importance for Palestinians, for the Islamist moveme

By Rabbi Avi Shafran , JTA News & Features The U.S. Supreme Court's upholding of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has elicited the u

By Phyllis Snyder , JTA News & Features The Supreme Court has made it clear that ideology trumps women's health in the nation's highest court.

By Rabbi Or N. Rose , JTA News & Features In October 2006, at a meeting of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur, an active member of the

By Rabbi Rob Toren , Samis Foundation Jewish continuity. This was and in many respects still is the buzz phrase occupying Jewish leaders in North

By Tammy Kaiser , Special to JTNews As Jews living in the 21st century, we are well aware of the importance of physical safety. Alarm systems, loc

By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik , Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Congregation My Name Is Rachel Corrie presents a one-sided, simplistic view of a very comp

By Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner and Skip Kotkins, President , Temple De Hirsch Sinai As many people know, this month the Seattle Repertory Theater is st

By Steven M. Cohen , JTA Columnist NEW YORK (JTA) — Not many years ago, it was taken as axiomatic that intermarriage constitutes a significant thr

By Mindee Nodvin , Special to JTNews Growing up in a traditional Atlanta Jewish family and having been blessed with a strong Jewish education, my

By Randi M. Abrams , Special to JTNews We Jews are a scrappy lot. This year marks the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews on the sh

By Bill Block , Special to JTNews I take great pride in the Seattle Jewish community’s commitment to tikkun olam, the obligation to make