Will Biden’s moves bring the Saudis closer to Israel?
By Jonathan S. Tobin
President Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team has talked a lot about re-emphasizing diplomacy and re-engaging with allies after what they claim was...
A model for sacred reopening
By Rabbi Jill Levy
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Vayakhel-Pekudei, Exodus 35:1-40:38.
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey flooded 10 feet of water into the basement...
The international COVID laboratory
Israel has vaccinated a higher percentage of its citizens against the coronavirus than any other country. More than half of the adult population has...
The Senate’s power brokers
November’s election brought the government under the full control of the Democrats, but not by much. Because of the 50-50 split, any Senate Democrat...
Letters | March 3, 2021
Clearly anti-Semitic
For Rabbi Daniel Zemel of the New Israel Fund to claim that it is “dangerous overreach” to claim that “the Global BDS Campaign...
How President Biden can find common ground on immigration
By Barbara Goldberg Goldman
Special to WJW
Six hundred and eleven is a number that should be emblazoned in every parent’s mind. It is a number...
Israeli politicians should stop copying the US election model
By Gary Schiff
Political strategists in the United States who were working against the Trump administration deduced that the best way to be victorious in...
Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke
By Adi Adamit-Gorstein
Michael Che of “Saturday Night Live” made a joke during the show’s “Weekend Update” segment saying that “Israel is reporting that they’ve...
What’s God like?
By Bill Dauster
Special to WJW
This week’s Torah portion is Ki Tisa, Exodus 30:11–34:35.
What is God like? In this week’s Torah reading, after the Israelites’...
Infection within the Republican Party
We are troubled by a recent poll that found three in 10 Republicans believe the QAnon conspiracy theory. At a time when the party...








