by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | Op Ed
By Alex Gordon (JNS) — History is difficult to study because it is so often rewritten. As a result, it is difficult to separate myths from facts. Forgetting the unpleasant aspects of history demonstrates Hegel’s famous statement, “The only thing we learn from history...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | Op Ed
By Loolwa Khazoom (JTA) — I regularly post Middle Eastern Jewish feminist content on social media, so right when Mahsa Amini was murdered, social media’s algorithm flooded my account with videos of women from Iran, giving a play-by-play account of events. Amini was a...
by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Op Ed
By Erez Gollan (JNS) — On Saturday afternoon, I was asked to join a jump team of first responders heading to Morocco to provide initial medical treatment and assess how the organization I volunteer for, United Hatzalah, could best assist survivors of the earthquake...
by staff | Sep 21, 2023 | Op Ed
By Melissa Hunter Assistant Editor When my oldest daughter was three years old and I was pregnant with my youngest, my husband and I decided to move to the home where we would raise our family. I hoped for a neighborhood near our Cincinnati family that was in a good...
by staff | Sep 14, 2023 | Op Ed
Every year I write my state of the city editorial on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah and the new year. People always kid me about rewriting the same editorial from the year before. Alas, I have heard your suggestions and I am writing this on a new piece of paper. Well,...
by staff | Sep 14, 2023 | Op Ed
By Rabbi Justus Baird (JTA) — This summer, in the middle of a 15-hour drive from Michigan to New Jersey, I stopped to buy two old wooden doors from a salvage shop in Cleveland. I found the seller, a kind, middle-aged dad whom I’ll call Jim, on social media. Jim...
