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OP-ED: In the year of L’Chaim

By ALAN SMASON

September 11 marked 18 years since the dastardly attack on American soil by foreigners in which more than 3,000 of our citizens’ lives were snuffed out by cowards intent on dismantling our union. The towers that fell...

OP-ED: Trump must draw a red line against Turkey in Syria to protect religious freedom

By DILIMAN ABDULKADER

(J  – “Certainly, Christians don’t want to see Turkish troops entering Syria given the past brutal history of the 1915 massacres of Christians carried out by the Turks,” says Chaldean Catholic Father Samir Kanoon of Qamishli, Syria.

Northeast Syria...

OP-ED: How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL

(JTA) — Theater folk in England are debating a recent revival of the musical “Falsettos,” asking whether non-Jews should be playing its Jewish characters. In an open letter, critics of the religion-blind casting complain that non-Jewish actors...

OP-ED: After decades as an Orthodox man, I finally became the religious woman I was born to be

By YISCAH SMITH

JERUSALEM (JTA) — As a spiritual activist, I feel a deep calling to build bridges between people and their inner selves.

My own story involves building and crossing many bridges. Gender identity dysphoria accompanied me at birth...

OP-ED: On Friday, they buried Rina

By MOSHE PHILLIPS

If ever there was a week that illustrated the dramatic difference between the lives of Israeli Jews and American Jews, this was it.

Over the course of the past week, Palestinian Arab terrorists stabbed and wounded an...

OP-ED: Is Donald Trump hurting Israel?

By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN AND DAVID MEYERS

  – Many of Donald Trump’s Jewish supporters are willing to overlook his flaws and failings, partly because they think he is “good for Israel.” Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, backing Israel...

OP-ED: Closed door policy

By ALAN SMASON

In recent months, the old American Dream of hope and opportunity has been contorted into a new, darker American Dream, whereby are found those who are able “to stand on their own two feet” and those who...

OP-ED: Israel should have ignored Trump’s pressure on Omar and Tlaib

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN

 Unlike his predecessor, Barack Obama, President Donald Trump doesn’t think more “daylight” between the United States and Israel is needed, and he has had Israel’s back on all the major issues regarding the peace...

OP-ED: Two-state advocates must answer these 7 questions

By JAMES SINKINSON

(JNS.org) – It’s been an article of faith for most recent U.S. presidents, for Western European nations and for many American politicians today that peace between Israel and the Palestinians can only be achieved through the so-called...

OP-ED: False accusations of anti-Semitism hurt the Jews more than you realize

By RABBI HERSHEL D. LUTCH

BALTIMORE (JTA) — As Americans of conscience, many of us are deeply troubled by the hyperpartisan tone that seems to color almost every news story and cycle. The sensationalism that is so often present within...