By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — As head of the nonprofit Brandeis Center for Human Rights […]
Category: Op Ed
The kaleidoscope is shaken
By Melanie Phillips (JNS) — The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has prompted understandable […]
On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis
By Stuart Schear (JTA) — Like Dave and Benji, the oddly matched cousins in Jesse […]
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) — We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert
By Dvora Treisman (JTA) — By the time I was 76, I thought I knew […]
Israeli broadcaster comments are an insult to ‘olim’ and affront to world Jewry
By Rabbi Steven Burg and Jamie Geller (JNS) — In a recent broadcast, Israel’s Channel […]
With just one line in his new book, Pope Francis disappoints
By Fiamma Nirenstein (JNS) — As the whole world faces the violent growth of antisemitism, […]
I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.
By Austin Reid (JTA) — Growing up in Lancaster, Ohio, I remember discovering a book […]
My survivor parents taught me to loathe Germany. Was I ready to forgive?
By Stewart Florsheim (JTA) — My mother was a Holocaust survivor and my father left […]
Dear HUC-JIR Community,
I hope that your High Holy Days were meaningful and offered some moments of peace […]