January 17th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – Jews were “undesirable.” They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their habits.” They were “un-American.” So read a report submitted ... Read More →
December 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
“American Jews and Israel: A Shifting Alliance’”(Ledger, Dec. 1), highlighted a real problem, but one that seems to be rather overblown. Speaker Tip O’Neill often noted that “all politics is local.” So, it is to be ... Read More →
December 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By the Ledger Editorial Advisory Board There is not a single reader of this newspaper who believes Jerusalem is anything other than the capital of the State of Israel. But the United States has formally held ... Read More →
December 6th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
As a 35-year veteran science teacher of middle school students, I was horrified at The Ledger’s obvious pro-marijuana stance posing disingenuously as a report on someone’s marketing of marijuana for normalizing its enhancement of food and ... Read More →
December 6th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI twice – both times about policy maneuvering with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to ... Read More →
November 29th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
We are very troubled by your recent article “Making Havdalah the ‘High’ Point of the Week” (Nov. 24). The article is so uncritical, so one-sided, that it amounts to an advertisement for the marriage of Jewish rituals ... Read More →
November 29th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Seffi Kogen (JTA) – The BDS debacle at the University of Michigan proved once again that Jews can be their own worst enemies. Since 2002, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government (CSG) has, on ... Read More →
November 21st, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Andrew Silow-Carroll LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Leaders of North America’s Jewish federation movement kicked off their annual conference here Sunday with a tribute to the 1987 march on Washington that brought out hundreds of thousands ... Read More →
November 8th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
Is the ADL losing its moral clarity? In the Ledger’s Oct. 27 Opinion column, “Eager for the US to pull out of UNESCO? Not so fast,” the ADL’s Kenneth Jacobson attempted to play both sides of ... Read More →
October 25th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By Kenneth Jacobson (JTA) – The announcement by the Trump administration that the U.S. will be pulling out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) over its biased treatment of Israel is only ... 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 →
Reading Ann Pava’s “A Tale of Two Philanthropies” (Jewish Ledger, Read more →
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