Category: Opinion

By Robert J. Marx , JTA World News Service CHICAGO (JTA) — Time affirms what heroism discerns. The dedication of a statue in memory of the Rev. Ma

By Lillian Faderman , The Advocate Americans have every reason to envy Israel's enlightened policies toward their lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans

By Joel Alperson , JTA World News Service OMAHA, Neb. (JTA) — A lot of my hometown of Omaha, Neb., was under water in the final days of July. Pum

By Rabbi Eric Yoffie , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — I have no patience for survival Judaism. Whenever I hear someone talk about what J

By Ilana Cone Kennedy , Special to JTNews I am honored to have recently been selected as a recipient of the Pamela Waechter Jewish Communal Servic

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews I can only imagine what my grandfather experienced as a Jew in the Ukraine before he immigrated to America in

By Anav Silverman , Special to JTNews Will the recognition and creation of a Palestinian state by the United Nations Security Council magically e

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews The "Arab Spring" that has already toppled autocracies in Tunisia and Egypt and threatens to do likewise to ot

By Rabbi Steven Wernick , United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism One of Judaism's most profound ideas is the notion that each year at Shavuot ea

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews My new friends from Zimbabwe saw their homeland devastated and looted in a manner not seen since Attila swept

By Joel Lion , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — With Richard Goldstone himself admitting that the infamous Goldstone Report was critically

By Gershon Baskin , The Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM — It's difficult to think about peace when missiles are flying from Gaza into Israel, and when in

By Edward Alexander , Special to JTNews Jews often have occasion to lament the truth of the biblical text that says that our enemies will arise fr

By Simcha Shtull , Special to JTNews Last week I joined more than 2,400 supporters of Israel — 20 of them from Washington State — at the second J

By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews Robert Wilkes, in the last issue of JTNews, wrote this about me: ...Many American [Jews]...support pro

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews Robert Wilkes is a political columnist who writes from a conservative viewpoint. Robert's column this week co

By Howard Gale , Special to JTNews This letter, drafted by Howard Gale of Seattle and signed by 42 other members of Seattle's Jewish community, wa

By David Shayne , Special to JTNews Were the ads sponsored by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign to run on Seattle Metro buses this month real

By Dan Brown , eJewishPhilanthropy.com The Jewish communal world has a problem. Well, several, but today let's focus on one: The continuing gender

By Ethan Felson , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — What's old is new, and unfortunately this holiday season, wrapped in a bow, is a boycot