September 13th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Ben Cohen/JNS.org It has been 23 years since the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires was devastated by a Hezbollah truck bomb, claiming the lives of 85 people and wounding hundreds more. It is a ... Read More →
September 6th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) – Few artifacts of the Holocaust move me like the yellow star. Homely and seemingly innocuous, they sit in museum cases either by themselves or still attached to a jacket ... Read More →
August 23rd, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) – As Jewish liaisons to four different presidents, we had the responsibility inside the White House to give voice to the perspectives and priorities of the American Jewish community. While our community may not be ... Read More →
August 9th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) – Bernie Sanders may hope to be seen as the true face of the Democratic Party, but he doesn’t have to get there by playing fast and loose with the truth. With ... Read More →
August 2nd, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
(JTA) — Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are about the closest American Jews have to secular saints. The two Jewish civil rights workers traveled south for the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964, joining the African-American activist James Chaney in ... Read More →
July 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Non-Orthodox Jews are angry about the Israeli government’s decision to go back on its word about a new egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ... Read More →
June 28th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By David Kraemer/(JTA) The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement has demanded that we all ask ourselves where we stand on questions of climate change, global warming and our collective responsibility for ... Read More →
June 21st, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Rafael Medoff Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of all time. His contributions to physics revolutionized our understanding of the universe. The current television series based on his life is appropriately titled “Genius.” ... Read More →
June 7th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen and Julie Decroix PARIS (JTA) – In the French presidential campaign recently concluded, discussion of foreign policy was largely forgotten. Nonetheless, Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, faces several critical global issues, among them ... Read More →
May 24th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Adina Lewittes (JTA) – The festival of Shavuot, which begins at sundown May 30, focuses on Moses receiving the tablets of the law. But an even more fascinating part of the story is when he shatters them. In ... Read More →
By Charles Dunst NEW YORK (JTA) – Former presidents recently Read more →
By Rafael Medoff In an era that has seen more Read more →
By Avi Weiss (JTA) – The High Holidays are upon Read more →
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) – In March 1920, Arab Read more →
By Amos Yadlin TEL AVIV (JTA) – Israel’s new “nation-state” Read more →
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