By Yoram Ettinger For previous opinion pieces featured in The American Israelite, click here. (JNS) Notwithstanding […]
Category: Op Ed
Reflections on the Tree of Life synagogue shooting
By Melissa W. Hunter Assistant Editor This past week marked the start of jury selection […]
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, On April 20, 2023, you published the imbalanced “Israel cannot stop fighting for […]
The Jerry Springer I knew
Written By Rabbi Sandford Kopnick, The Valley Temple When Jerry Springer died last week, Jews […]
Multiple efforts in Jewish sovereignty have self-destructed after seventy five years. Can Israel defy history — again?
By Dr. Mijal Bitton and Dr. Masua Sagiv (JTA) — This week marks Yom Haatzmaut, […]
The resilience of Sderot
By Joseph Frager (JNS) Rabbi David Fendel, head of the Hesder Yeshiva of Sderot, spent this […]
For theatergoers at Broadway’s recent spate of Jewish shows, attendance is a form of witness
By Laura Yares (JTA) — Jewish stories have had top billing on Broadway this season […]
Israel is Moody’s latest gaffe
By Lawrence Solmon (JNS) Until March 10 of this year, financial services company Moody’s gave the Silicon […]
I can’t forget what the Nazis did to my family, but I can be grateful to a repentant Germany
By Rabbi Michael Meyerstein (JTA) — Picture a cute-looking, 6 1/2-year-old girl with curly braided […]
Israel cannot stop fighting for one second
By Alex Selsky (JNS) In recent weeks, we once again received a painful reminder that Israel’s […]