Category: Opinion

By Shmuel Hain , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Another month, another round of recriminations in the Modern Orthodox community. Two mont

By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik and Rabbi Barry Freundel ,   Recent allegations of impropriety on the part of the founder and head of Eternal J

By Dr. Rafael Medoff , Special to JTNews "Just kids being kids." That's what one grandparent said after learning that students at a middle schoo

By Paula Begoun , Special to JTNews Editor's Note: Seattle businesswoman Paula Begoun, founder of Paula's Choice skin care products, regularly tra

By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews On Oct. 21, several Jewish organizations will host a community conference, "Understanding the Iranian T

By Edwin Black , Special to JTNews During the first months of the Hitler regime, in 1933, leaders of the Zionist movement concluded a controversia

By Alison Eisinger and Sally Kinney , JTNews Columnist Our Jewish traditions are deeply rooted in the concept of home. Our most beloved holidays

By Mark Richard Schuster , Special to JTNews Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur provide a time for each of us each year to reflect upon ourselves and ou

By Rachel Goldberg , JTA World News Service There's a lot of noise about health care — wildly false claims, meetings being disrupted, shrill voice

By Larry Greenfield , JTA World News Service Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American

By Stephen J. Savitsky , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — I was most privileged on July 13 to be invited along with 16 other Jewish leaders

By Gila Orkin , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — The gains made by far-right parties across Europe in the recent European parliamentary el

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews The Anti-Defamation League's national director Abe Foxman has a mantra, "Never again," that he calls upon cons

By Dee Simon and Laurie Warshal Cohen , Special to JTNews The recent fatal shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,

By Matthew Brooks , Special to JTNews While Americans examine the first 100 days of the Obama administration, it is important to make a candid ass

By Marc R. Stanley , Special to JTNews During his first 100 days in office, the American Jewish community has already taken great pleasure with th

By Howard M. Lenhoff and Nathan Shapiro , Special to JTNews Today, Ethiopian Jews rescued from Africa during Operation Moses in 1984 and subseque

By Edward Alexander , Special to JTNews The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. Right now they are engaged in "Israel Apartheid Week," s

By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews Gerald Steinberg is the director of the right-wing Israel group, NGO Monitor. His mission is to "expose

By Dan Kosky , Special to JTNews Israel's achievements in the face of acute challenges over the past 60 years are unparalleled. Yet the sobering r