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Opinion: Family Wants Nonprofit to Stop Using a Holocaust Survivor’s Name
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (699+ words) By Warren H. Cohn Imagine a Philadelphia organization calling itself the Marian Anderson Institute for Concert Hall Exclusion. You wouldn’t need a lawyer to explain the problem. Nobody in this city would. There’d be a statement from her family by lunch,…...
Editorial: What’s Happening to Shas?
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (485+ words) Something consequential is happening to Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that has been a pillar of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and, for decades, one of Israel’s most durable political forces. Shas won 11 Knesset seats in 2022. Recent polls put it around…...
Editorial: Abbas’ New Ra’am Party
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (471+ words) The Ra’am Party is not an obvious place to look for an experiment in Jewish-Arab political partnership. The United Arab List grew out of the southern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement and historically represented conservative Muslim Arab voters. Its leader,…...
Editorial: The Rebbes Go to Washington
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (378+ words) An extraordinary procession of Hasidic rebbes and Orthodox leaders descended upon the White House last week, some arriving by private jet, for what was billed as an opportunity to exchange Rosh Hashanah greetings with President Donald Trump. And then, naturally,…...
Editorial: Choosing Party Over Principle
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (453+ words) Every election, we are told, is too important for principle. It was an extraordinary formulation, but a familiar political temptation. El-Sayed has now apologized more fully for his response to the March terrorist attack on Temple Israel outside Detroit. After…...
Opinion: Taking Stock of Rosh Hashanah for the Next Generation
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (702+ words) I love being in synagogue for the High Holidays to take stock of where we have been and where we are going, seek forgiveness, look toward renewal and welcome the new year with optimism. The High Holidays are filled with…...
Opinion: For Jewish Charities, a Chance to Serve Without Leaving Faith at the Door
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (282+ words) By David J. Benger Same meal. Same neighbors. Different rules. On Aug. 25, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that this arrangement is not merely strange. It is unconstitutional. The Office of Legal Counsel is the component of the Justice…...
Hila Rose: Abrams Hebrew Teacher Returns Home
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (399+ words) For Hila Rose, a Hebrew teacher at Abrams Hebrew Academy in Yardley, a post-Israel Defense Forces trip to the United States was supposed to be just that — a trip. She ended up meeting her husband and sticking around the U.S.,…...
Kesher Israel Hires New Director of Education
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (591+ words) Kesher Israel Congregation in West Chester is welcoming a new class of religious school students alongside a new education director, Rabbi Cantor Devorah Frick. Frick grew up Christian in a “clergy family” but said she wasn’t interested in Christianity as…...
Katz: Israel Won’t Leave South Lebanon Security Zone Until Hezbollah is Disarmed
1+ week, 1+ day ago (461+ words) Israel will not withdraw from Southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country and the danger posed by attacks from the Land of the Cedars is neutralized, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I…...