The 2020 Holocaust Remembrance Day was an unusual one, as its events were shrouded with an eerie silence, forced on them by the public health directives concerning the coronavirus outbreak. Major … more

At the risk of disclosing a spoiler, I would like to begin this week by discussing the 2019 film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Tom Hanks plays the beloved American … more

Every Passover, we strive to experience Egypt in our own lives. This year, that wasn’t hard. My husband and I share the names of people we personally know who have passed … more

How many tries will it take before President Trump’s speechwriters finally get it right on the Holocaust? Three years ago, they issued a Holocaust commemoration statement that didn’t … more

Observant Jews should not rush to pray in minyans now that the Israeli government has eased some of the restrictions put in place to contain the coronavirus … more

Three-hundred-fifty physicians self-identified as shomrei Torah and mitzvot have signed a statement imploring “all fellow Jews to continue strict adherence to isolation guidelines WITHOUT … more

Among the many signs of summer that the coronavirus pandemic is silencing: the annual parade that draws tens of thousands of supporters of Israel to Manhattans’s Fifth Avenue. “Its … more

After a protracted battle across three successive national elections and several weeks into an extended coronavirus crisis, Israel’s political stalemate ended … more

Simmy Cohen has not chanted much from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. During the current lockdown, when he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, he … more

If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might sink on the moral scale, then the U.N. Human … more