Many Nachshons in history
By Rabbi Jennifer Weiner
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Beshalach,
Exodus 13:17 - 17:16.
Beshalach finds us standing at the proverbial shores of freedom....
Letters | Jan. 12, 2022
The problem is bigger than debt
Regarding “U.S. Jews need to talk more about student debt relief” (Opinion, Dec. 23):
Why is it that one rarely,...
How does Archbishop Tutu stack up against Jewish values?
By Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt
The reaction to the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Dec. 26 reveals a blind spot in the tributes in the...
In support of the daily minyan
By Saul Golubcow
On Thursday evenings at Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County, I serve as the minyan captain. When my father passed away in...
Jan. 6 must become an American Tishah B’Av
By Rabbi Sid Schwarz
The wisdom that a biblical text can impart always resides between the words in the scroll and the life and times...
Elusive bipartisanship
A year after a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol in an attack that overwhelmed law enforcement, posed a threat to lawmakers debating the presidential...
The option of civil marriage
Late last year, something happened in the United Arab Emirates that never happened before in that Gulf state, yet it attracted little attention: A...
Rome is always burning
By Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Bo, Exodus 10:1 - 13:16.
Since I first read Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg’s “The Particulars of...
The line between ‘Jew-curious’ and antisemitic
By Tami Sussman
Alma via JTA
My neighbor is obsessed with my Jewishness. Like, literally obsessed.
When I happen to arrive home while he’s entertaining guests...
Letters | Jan. 5, 2022
Taxes could pay for BBB
The Dec. 30 WJW editorial “Build back different” alludes to two 600-pound gorillas. First, money and second, Republican strategy. The...
