By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Most Jewish newspapers have been focusing on the current wave of antisemitic attacks on Jews. That coverage is extremely important since if we don’t stand up for ourselves, who else is going to come to our aid? But we will never be truly safe in this country until…
By Bill Simons
Yiddish has bequeathed us a word – tsuris – that pithily conveys sorrow, loss and pain. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games leaves a legacy of tsuris. Upon winning the silver medal in women’s figure skating, the superbly talented Alexandra Trusova expressed disappoint…
By Shelley Hubal
“Jewish people take care of their own.” An irate community member said this to me recently. The prompt for her comment was a television commercial sponsored by a Christian aid organization. The commercial contains images of unclean and destitute elderly people. While th…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
My original plan was to write a column called “Entering the Third Year” about the continuing pandemic. Yes, I know numbers are down, but we’re not finished with this nightmare yet – a nightmare that has killed more than 947,000 Americans as of this writing. …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
“Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today defended his and [Deborah Lipstadt’s].... denunciations of Republican Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) previous comments in support of the January 6 insurrectionists. The Wisconsin Republican demanded an apology for being called…
