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...

We can and must fight voter suppression

By Michael Gelman The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy. Yet in 2021, we have a fundamental disagreement about whether democracy is good...
A man walks in Midwood, home to a large Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Sept. 27, 2020.

Our Orthodox communities got COVID-19 early. We led a study to turn tragedy into...

By Avi Rosenberg, Jonathan Silverberg, Jason Zimmerman and Israel Zyskind In May, as America reeled from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of...

As we return to ‘normal,’ here’s how we can ensure those with disabilities aren’t...

By Michelle Steinhart Masks, quarantine, self-isolation, social distancing — these have become part of our everyday life. So has loneliness, misunderstanding, frustration and irritation. While...

Better ways to respond to persons in mental distress

By Steven Sellers Lapham Special to WJW Mr. Zipskey trots erratically down the sidewalk in his underwear, swinging a butcher knife overhead, while the 1944 hit...
l-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia, known in English as the Prophet’s Mosque, and also as Al Haram.

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...