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Saying that “Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” New York Times columnist and editor Bari Weiss resigned on Tuesday with a scathing letter to Publisher …
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7/15/20
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The sobs came over the phone as Michael Beer described his father Ira’s lifelong commitment to Torah study and his family.
A victim of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed hundreds of …
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Speaking Personally, by Sam Sokol, JTA
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7/15/20
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As a child, I spent most of my waking hours with two Black women who cared for seven Jewish children as if they were their own. I rode buses with them, navigated both secular city life and Jewish …
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By Hannah Lebovitz
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7/15/20
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There’s a reason why most Israelis find it difficult to listen patiently to lectures from liberal American Jews. For Israelis, their country is a real place filled with real people and …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/15/20
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We are witnessing an unprecedented phenomenon: statues of American heroes ripped down by mobs or taken down by local governments with seemingly little deliberation. Additionally, long-standing …
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By Gary Schiff
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7/15/20
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In “The Koren Tehillim,” Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb presents practical takes on each of the 150 psalms …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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7/15/20
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To the editor,
Regarding Alyza Lewin’s article, “Fighting back against Jew-hatred on campus,” in The Jewish Star on July 10.
A college student asked me what to do if he …
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By Sid Krimsky
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7/15/20
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Bethany Mandel wasn’t unnerved back in May when people all over the world were decrying her as a “Grandma killer.”
After all, the Orthodox mother of four and rising star in the …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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7/15/20
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Israel’s indigenous people: ‘Rabbi Andy’ uses Orwellian wokeness to cancel Jews and the Jewish state
There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and opposition to bad things like racism is, in principle, praiseworthy, the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/15/20
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It’s been surreal watching from Israel as Americans discuss my future. I’ve gotten used to presidents spending years developing plans for my neighborhood and other towns in Judea and …
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By Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
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7/9/20
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