Category: Opinion

By Kenneth Jacobson , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — For those of us who closely follow the progress in America in the battles against r

By Lynne Landsberg and Raechel Banks , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The sages of the Talmud had a debate about how we are to light th

By Rabbi Donniel Hartman , The Shalom Hartman Institute The foundational obligation and responsibility of every nation is to protect its people.

By Ben Cohen , JNS.org Back in September, President Barack Obama likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's anxieties over America's Ira

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews With the presidential election campaign in full swing, that quadrennial question arises once more — how will t

By Akiva Kenny Segan , Special to JTNews On Sept. 25 The New York Times published an op-ed of significance to Jews everywhere, including Jews thr

By Ari Weiss , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — To eat: a cup of black beans, a few ounces of pasta and a bit of tuna. To drink: water. T

By Rabbi Anson Laytner , Special to JTNews A response from the Jewish Federation can be found at here. Although the Jewish Federation of Greater

By Executive Committee , Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle The article to which this column is responding can be found here. "Whither the Jewi

By Lawrence Grossman , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — When world leaders converge on New York this month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmad

By Gerald M. Steinberg , JNS.org UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon — who decided to visit Tehran Aug. 29—31 for the conference of the Non-Aligned M

By Edmon J. Rodman , JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — This year, Tisha b'Av marks not only the destruction of both Temples, but with the

By Marcie Natan , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Pride and chagrin: It's rare that the two emotions are experienced simultaneously. But t

By Gil Troy , Shalom Hartman Institute The Middle East is combustible enough without adding one-sided, incendiary historical accounts to the mix.

By Rafael Medoff , JointMedia News Service Seventy years ago this month, America learned, for the first time, about the systematic mass murder of

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews Most American Jews agree; Israeli settlements on the West Bank are an impediment to peace. Not me. In my view

By Rabbi Donniel Hartman , Shalom Hartman Institute For everything there is a season — a time to mourn and a time to celebrate, a time for introsp

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — The destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BCE was the first

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews Undeterred by the superstitions associated with Friday the thirteenth, negotiators are slated to meet in Istan

By Jon Rosenberg and Lee Sherman , JTA World News Service charitable donations. Some 62.8 million volunteers in the United States provided more t