Category: Opinion

By Lori Weinstein and Lee Sherman , JTA World News Service (JTA) — Thirty years ago, a Jewish woman experiencing domestic violence had few places

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews If the leaders in Tehran hoped for signs of a U.S.-Israeli policy rift over the Iranian nuclear program, Presid

By Rabbis Martin and Daniel Weiner , Special to JTNews We represent two generations of rabbis, five decades of love for the State of Israel and ad

By Rafael Medoff , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The news that a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic recently conducted a posthumo

By David Saperstein and William Daroff , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — During February, Jewish communities across North America obser

By Ruth Messinger with Jordan Namerow , Shma.com (Sh'ma) — E.F. Schumacher's 1973 classic Small is Beautiful introduced many of us to the concept

By Wayne L. Firestone , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Just as college students were finishing their winter exams, New York Mayor Micha

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews I was an interested people-watcher at the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions presentation hosted at Seattle's

By Rabbi Will Berkovitz , Special to JTNews Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing. —Pissarro The p

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews As Iran ignores the international community while developing nuclear weapons, the regime's abysmal treatment o

By   ,   A personal story from a Bellevue rabbi underscores the gravity of the situation facing our state and the families hur

By David Dabscheck , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — The flurry of commentary about an outbreak of hostilities between Iran and the United

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews Now, there's no doubt about it. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states in its chilling new repor

By Rafael Medoff , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Most American Christian leaders strongly condemned the Kristallnacht pogrom that the

By Elie Kaunfer , JTA World News Service DENVER (JTA) — I want to challenge one of the mainstay assumptions of organized Jewish life: Jewish conti

By Rabbi Will Berkovitz , Special to JTNews Hope has feathers, that reason is a plank, that life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a ye

By Avi Dichter , JTA World News Service Ashkelon, Israel (JTA) — Turkey, long one of Israel's more stable and supportive partners in the region,

By Rabbi Stuart Light , Special to JTNews As parents searching for the ideal school environment for our children, we envision our progeny thriving

By Michael J. Weil , JTA World News Service (JTA) — Israelis and Jews around the world are awaiting the Palestinians' push at the United Nations f

By Mervyn Danker , J. Weekly of Northern California SAN FRANCISCO (j.weekly) — To establish its independence, Israel had to win a war against the