Voices

The Washington Jewish Week featured J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby in page one articles twice in April, published J Street opinion columns...

by Daniel Pipes What motives lay behind last month's Boston Marathon bombing and the would-be attack on a VIA Rail Canada train? Leftists and establishmentarians variously...

by Rabbi Jack Moline Just before Passover, a colleague shared (a slightly longer version of) this story with me. One Pesach eve, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of...

by Daniel Kurtzer Harsh words in the Israeli Knesset and fisticuffs at the Western Wall have come to define the growing alienation of secular and...

by Jeremiah Baronberg As young Jewish professionals living and working in Washington, D.C., we all know there is no shortage of organized Jewish opportunities to...

by Douglas Bloomfield Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has dispensed with the closest thing the Palestinian Authority has to an indispensable man, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. No...

by Alan Elsner One of my favorite quotations from Pirkei Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers) is attributed to Rabbi Hillel who said: "If I...

by Dottie Bennett Sunday, April 28 was a special day which involved two organizations I feel strongly about, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and...

The JFNA 2013 Rabbinic Cabinet mission of 32 rabbis to Kiev, Ukraine, and Israel offered the rabbis representing all denominations from across the country...

Every erev Passover, I sit down with a number of different Haggadot, or with various pieces of information from the Internet. I try to make...