Coming to a more complex understanding of heroism during the Holocaust
By Saul Golubcow
Special to WJW
Our yearly commemoration of Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah places heavy emphasis on the Shoah, the slaughter of the Six Million, and...
Reckoning at the German International School
By Miyah Falk
Special to WJW
When my rabbi nominated me to be part of a peer-education program that connects Jewish and non-Jewish students across Greater...
Here’s a (Jewish) way to redirect your pandemic despair into purposeful living
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By Alan Kadish and Michael Shmidman
This last year of pandemic living has not been easy. Over 500,000 Americans have died, including countless members of our...
Gratitude for healing and wonders
By Clifford Fishman
Special to WJW
I had my second COVID shot this morning. After the woman who would administer the shot wiped my arm and...
Asian Americans like me have to start talking openly about our trauma
By Jenny Wong
As Berkeley, Calif.’s elected city auditor, I project an image of professionalism, competence and the confidence that comes with decades of experience...
Ignore Jonathan Pollard’s terrible advice
By Jonathan S. Tobin
It was probably inevitable that we hadn’t heard the last of Jonathan Pollard. When the convicted spy landed in Israel last...
My Bagel Addiction
By Karen Galatz
Sitting out the pandemic, I’ve developed a serious addiction.
It’s surprising it’s taken so long. After all, I’m a native New Yorker, the...
Maryland’s nonpublic schools need nurses, too
By Yehuda Neuberger, Jerry Wolasky, Karen Paiken Barall, Aryeh Gross, Yanky Statman, Sam Melamed and Edwin Zaghi
It’s the middle of a busy day when...
Raising Asian Jewish kids in the US has never been scarier
By Melody Muhlrad
Last Tuesday, eight people were killed — including six women of Asian descent — at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area....
This rabbi has seen the future, and it sounds like Clubhouse
By Rabbi Wendy Pein
“A Chabad rabbi and Reform rabbi walk into a club” sounds like the beginning of an old, tired Jewish joke. Yet...
