With AIPAC-associated circus over, what next?
The periphery of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center has always been somewhat of a circus when the American Israel Public Affairs Committee comes...
Governing by leadership
Addressing West Virginia Democrats last month, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta offered a thinly veiled critique of his former boss, the president.
“In our democracy,...
Confronting suicide
I stood at a graveside in Pittsburgh this past summer and listened as an experienced pulpit rabbi eulogized a young Jewish suicide victim. In...
The resilience debate
Resilience can be taught. That was the hopeful message Michele Borba, the educational psychologist, author and Dr. Oz Show contributor brought to a packed...
On the media, cognitive dissonance and ignorance
Maureen Dowd turned her trademark snark on Brandeis University, Haverford College and Rutgers University when, in a May 17 column for The New York...
Let slip the dogs of war
My mother, Linda, woke up last week to the sight of blood – on her bedroom floor, in the hallways of her house in...
A study in contrast
President Obama’s remarks last week following the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17 over Ukraine by suspected pro-Russian rebels were unusually eloquent, even for...
Stepping out of the shadows
In a recent Torah portion, Hukkat, Moses is punished for conflating his authority with God’s.
Instead of telling the restless and thirsty masses that God...
The limits of language
After two weeks on the job as editor-in-chief of Washington Jewish Week, I have started to receive phone calls and letters about our articles.
I...
The right to privacy
The Supreme Court of the United States ended its current term with a flurry of headline-grabbing decisions concerning free speech and the free exercise...
