I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some stories about my mother that you may or may not know. Two weeks before my mother, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, was nifteres, I paid a shiva … more

Over the years we have shared wonderful times and challenging times together as a community. A rabbi could not ask for a better community or better synagogue leadership than I have experienced … more

Against the backdrop of this month’s long-overdue leadership elections for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, Palestinians in the West Bank face an uncertain … more

Let us begin with the facts: Converts whose conversions were conducted according to halacha are 100 percent Jewish. In the eyes of G-d and Torah, they are full Jews, just as Jewish as any born … more

In considering the furor around President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the hard-right news website Breitbart, as his chief strategist, let’s start … more

A growing number of pro-Israel activists and Jewish community figures are expressing concern that Minnesota’s U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison will turn the Democratic Party away from … more

An Ellison win would be another signal of the Democratic Party becoming the anti-Israel party. “Ellison’s association with the Nation of Islam … more

Jared Kushner defended his father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, against accusations of racism and anti-Semitism, telling Forbes that Trump’s history proves he was not racist or … more

The most shocking thing about talk of Keith Ellison’s Israel record as he rises within the Democratic Party is how few think it’s shocking. … more

A growing number of pro-Israel activists and Jewish community figures are expressing concern that Minnesota’s U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison will turn the Democratic Party away from … more