Infection within the Republican Party
We are troubled by a recent poll that found three in 10 Republicans believe the QAnon conspiracy theory. At a time when the party...
The Lonely Star State
Texas has long prided itself on its individualism, its independence and its deep natural and human resources. That approach has often enabled the Lone...
Letters | Feb. 24, 2021
Can an anti-Semite be a political moderate?
Dylan Williams of J Street (“Biden Gets It,” Opinion, Feb. 18) called on the Biden administration to “rebuild...
A life preserver to Jews who hold fast to it
By Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
If any one thing has united Jews throughout the ages, it is anti-Semitism. Yet in this era of increased polarization and...
Anti-Semitism must be confronted, but silencing legitimate political criticism goes too far
By Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel
Special to WJW
I am a passionate Zionist. I was once quoted in these pages saying exactly that, and my passion,...
Beyond Donald Trump
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell joined 42 other Republican senators in voting to acquit former president Donald Trump on the charge of incitement of...
‘Soft-core’ Holocaust denial
We have commented before on Poland’s effort to reframe Holocaust history, and to whitewash the involvement of Polish citizens in Nazi atrocities during the...
Letters | Feb. 17, 2021
If you will it, the dream gets complicated
Saul Golubcow’s reflections (“Reading Herzl’s ‘The Jewish State,’ 125 years later,” Opinions, Feb. 11) would be unambiguously...
When abundance breeds contempt
By Ruthie Blum
In a recent phone call, a friend complained about the pressure that the Israeli government, media and much of the public have...
The tattered flag on Wisconsin Avenue
By Gerard Leval
Special to WJW
For years, those of us who live in the Georgetown-Burleith area of Washington and shop at the so-called “social Safeway”...