A year after Colleyville, let’s continue to prioritize Jewish security
By Gil Preuss
Jan. 15 marked one year since Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three of his congregants were held hostage in their synagogue, Congregation Beth...
Virginia’s template in the fight against antisemitism
By Eric Fusfield
When Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) issued an executive order establishing a Commission to Combat Anti-Semitism on his first day in office...
Prayers for Damar Hamlin
By Rabbi Charles Arian
I had never heard the name Damar Hamlin until last Monday night when I noticed a lot of my Facebook friends...
What I see looking back at 2022
To end the year, we asked community members to offer their thoughts as they look back at 2022. What stands out? What looked important...
What I see looking back at 2022
To end the year, we asked community members to offer their thoughts as they look back at 2022. What stands out? What looked important...
Montgomery County confronts antisemitism
Barbara Goldberg Goldman | Special to WJW
No community is immune from hate crimes, not even Montgomery County, long-considered an enlightened bastion for embracing and...
Jews and Muslims must be there for each other
By Margaret Johnson
During an online discussion about the lobbying effort underway to encourage the Montgomery County Council to pass a resolution adopting the definition...
Kanye, in context
By Rabbi Aaron Miller
In the early years of my rabbinate, antisemitism rarely crossed my mind. I saw how antisemitism was rising in Europe, and...
Does Trump hate Jews, or just ‘bad Jews’?
Andrew Silow-Carroll | JTA
In her new book “Bad Jews,” Emily Tamkin frames recent American Jewish communal politics as a series of clashes between antagonists...
Both the left and the right have turned on the Jews
By Ian Haworth
I’m a British Jew who works in the world of American conservative media, and the behavior of the conservative movement over the...
