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OP-ED: Not feeling it in Zoom synagogue? Going outside could help.

By TIFFANY SHLAIN

(JTA) — This year, you can quiet a congregation of Jews with a press of your mute button. It’s hard to believe.

During a normal High Holiday season, synagogues are packed, and services are accompanied by a...

OP-ED: What Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught us about the gift of time

By DANIEL B. SHAPIRO

(JTA) — As Jews in the United States prepared to light candles to welcome Rosh Hashanah, they were hit with the last terrible news of a terrible year: the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At...

OP-ED: A year like no other

By ALAN SMASON

When Rosh Hashanah 5780 arrived last year, there was little indication that our world would be so throughly upended as it was.

It started off promising. 

Continued progress in the business and financial sectors was evident as...

OP-ED: New Details on the UN BDS blacklist

By ANNE HERZBERG

– In a March 2020 interview posted on a fringe website, BDS activist Shir Hever revealed new details about the creation and operation of the United Nations’ BDS blacklist. (For information on the list, known...

OP-ED: Do the lessons of 9/11 still apply in a post-COVID world?

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

– For some of us, it seems like it happened yesterday. For others, the 9/11 attacks are ancient history or just a meme about an event that doesn’t resonate with their concerns.

It’s been...

OP-ED: Laura’s narrow miss; Carnival curtailed

By ALAN SMASON

We all breathed a sigh of relief when short-lived Hurricane Marco skirted past us last week and when the most destructive storm to ever hit the Louisiana coast in recorded history, Hurricane Laura, took aim at Lake...

OP-ED: Why they scrawl ‘Free Palestine’ on synagogues

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

(JNS.org) – It could have been a lot worse. With dozens of buildings in Kenosha, WI., burned during the riots that followed the shooting of Jacob Blake, one of the town’s synagogues was tagged with graffiti.

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OP-ED: Can the world wait for Biden to deal with Iran?

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

– In an election year, everything a president does is fair game for political potshots. So the sniping at the Trump administration’s policy towards Iran from Democrats is to be expected. But do they...

OP-ED: After UAE deal, will liberal Zionists stand on the right side of history

By DAVID SUISSA

The forces of darkness in the Middle East are panicking. One of the most powerful Arab countries in the world has made peace with the dreaded Zionist enemy.

For these forces...

OP-ED: Can the Egyptians cool things down in southern Israel? Maybe, but not for long.

By YOAV LIMOR

(JNS) – After a few rough days in the country’s south, there was some cautious optimism in Israel on Monday, based on two main factors: the arrival of an Egyptian security mission to the Palestinians and the...