As we prepare to undergo our annual pleadings to the Almighty to grant us a sweet and prosperous new year, we should take time to examine our worldly connections to one another. The High Holidays are not only a period...
The newly-declassified emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have unexpectedly revealed a key part of the Obama administration’s strategy in dealing with Israel.
Among the Clinton emails released recently was a 2010 memo from the...
The incredible amount of coverage on TV, in magazines and newspapers on the anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina will hit a high this weekend. For those of us who have gotten past the dark days of early recovery...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Congress and the American people are focused on what everyone agrees is a historic, serious and consequential foreign policy decision — the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran.
(Editor’s note: David Kaplinsky was a student from 2008-2009 in the Chicago Public Schools after his family fled New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. David still lives in Chicago, where he works as an actor, singer and filmmaker. His parents...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — This past month, as our attention was focused on watching the developing Iran deal, the situation in Israel has taken a deeply troubling turn.
First, a woman wearing a kippah was detained by the...
The Legislature just raised taxes by $400 million with a simple majority vote. The business community has filed a lawsuit contending that a two-thirds’ vote was required. If the business community loses, we should amend Louisiana’s constitution...
NEW YORK (JTA) – When I was 24, an Orthodox matchmaker tried to set me up on a date with a man older than my parents. When I objected, she told me, “Stop being so picky. Not...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fewer than 800 miles from our shores, a deeply disturbing crisis is unfolding as tens of thousands of citizens of the Dominican Republic face deportation from their country simply because of their...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The burning a few weeks ago of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, a historic church in the Galilee region of Tabgha built on the foundations of a sixth-century...
