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Jun 29, 2018, 5:58 PM

The number on my arm

The ACLU legal aid's phone number, written on Shira Pruce's forearm with a red sharpie, June 28, 2018. (Courtesy, Shira Pruce).

I know what my children and grandchildren will say about me when they speak of these dark times

Nina B. Mogilnik

Jun 4, 2018, 6:33 PM

Democracy Dies in Darkness. Or Does It?

The tag line of the Washington Post is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." I disagree. Democracy dies when it is suffocated, when it is drowned in a sea of lies. Democracy is messy. It is complicated and in many ways...

May 27, 2018, 11:31 PM

The Korean Summit

It's on. It's off. It's on again. The Korean Summit, including the US, SOKO and NOKO, is scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. Despite all the rhetoric, it was never really cancelled. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders' disclosure that...

Olivier Jack Melnick

May 25, 2018, 5:47 AM

Are we inching our way towards the fulfillment of Zechariah 12?

Jerusalem has been at the very center of religious, historical and geopolitical tensions for a long time. With the recent move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it seems that fuel has once again been added...

Yosef Chai Klein

May 22, 2018, 3:48 PM

Yanny or Laurel: Has the World lost it’s Moral?

I’d like to begin by saying I’m not the biggest writer, nor do I profess to be intellectual in particular when it comes to politics and world events. To be frank, as someone who gets the Wall Street Journal...

May 16, 2018, 1:43 PM

Einstein’s definition and the Nakba

We Jews know a thing or two about displacement. Rabbi Margolin, the EJA Chairman and founder made the point succinctly recently at an event marking the 7Oth Anniversary of Israel’s independence. His ancestors for successive generations lived in Poland,...

Andy Blumenthal

May 16, 2018, 6:11 AM

Never homeless again

This week saw the historic, miraculous opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. America's symbolic home away from home with their friend and ally Israel is now in its undivided capital. President Trump is a builder of majestic building and...

May 16, 2018, 6:06 AM

A wedding anniversary gift

Jared Kushner went off-script while addressing the dedication ceremony of The US Embassy in Jerusalem. He referred to Jerusalem as the "eternal heart," not capital, of the Jewish people. This must have been the Psalmist's description speaking from his heart. "The city which has...

May 15, 2018, 11:40 PM

It’s about time

I don't mean to sound ungrateful. Standing in Jerusalem at the newly announced US Embassy, among 800 friends and comrades, pinching ourselves to be sure this is real, we said the blessing for living to see this day. We...

May 15, 2018, 6:24 PM

What if a President Hillary had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital?

From the endless stream of press releases emerging from the headquarters of liberal and progressive Jewish organizations, not to mention the high and low dudgeon of a cash-starved, forever-schnorring leftwing weekly The Forward, one can easily conclude that the...

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