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Raymond M. Berger

Jul 3, 2018, 11:27 PM

Immigration Quandary: Is Sanctuary a Good Idea?

California’s sanctuary laws are really a form of delayed screening. The United States is a case study in bad immigration policy. In 1986 there were an estimated five million undocumented people in the US. The great majority of them have worked...

Jul 3, 2018, 7:49 PM

Lost. . . and found. . .

Lost. . .and found. . . It only takes a moment for a little one to slip out of sight. Even as you know that she has just toddled past the slide or peddled to the other side of the playground,...

Daniel Bucksbaum

Jul 3, 2018, 8:07 AM

Refugees and Security: Israel’s Dilemma in Southwest Syria

Israel is bracing for any scenario in the areas just east and southeast of the Golan Heights, as it expects heavy fighting between the Assad regime and rebels in the Dara’a province to continue. Syrian and Russian efforts to...

Jul 2, 2018, 7:21 AM

The Cause behind the Flight

April 9. 1948 was a date in pre-Israel history that, like Roosevelt’s remark of the Pearl Harbor attack, was “a day that will live in infamy” Most Israelis born after 1948 have probably never heard of the massacre in...

Jun 29, 2018, 2:31 PM

Israel Must Either Protect or Admit the Syrian Refugees

I am more upset and angry than I can remember. Despite an early agreement with the Russians and the Americans, the Syrian army is retaking the southern part of Syria that borders Israel and Jordan. There are reports that...

Marie van der Zyl

Jun 26, 2018, 5:01 PM

UK being ‘nicer than Trump’ on refugees is not good enough

Last week, an American newsreader broke down on live TV. Rachel Maddow was overcome with emotion while trying to read a report about babies and young children being forcibly separated from their parents by US authorities. While the newsreader apologised...

Jun 25, 2018, 11:18 PM

Why we should compare current events to the Holocaust

As a well-known aphorism tells us, a spurious comparison to the Holocaust devolves an argument to a standstill. But a well-placed comparison to the Holocaust can be a call-to-action, can help to highlight bias and create change. Last week, Nicholas...

Avraham Bronstein

Jun 24, 2018, 10:29 AM

Staffs, Statutes, and the Cries of a Child

In the year 399 BCE, the great philosopher Socrates was arrested and tried on charges of heresy and corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens. He was convicted, and sentenced to death. His students begged him to run...

Jun 22, 2018, 2:43 PM

The desecration at the US border

Shoes and toys for immigrant children are left at the Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso, Texas, June 21, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Separating parents and children severs the cord tethering people to their own humanity and to God

Douglas M. Bloomfield

Jun 20, 2018, 10:18 PM

Are Nazi Comparisons Fair?

The Holocaust was so horrific and unique, that comparisons belittle the meaning of that period of world history. So it is with comparing Donald Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy of family separation. We're not talking about mass extermination and...

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