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After the horrific attack this past Shabbat at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in which 11 of our brothers and sisters were brutally murdered, we can’t help but be shaken and concerned for the America we have come to know and love.
For the foreseeable future, for the rest of my lifetime, our synagogues, our day schools and our community centers will be less accessible, less open to world than in the past.
Four large and heavy commemorative bronze plaques wait in storage at the Praia airport in Cape Verde, an archipelago of ten tiny islands 300 miles off the coast of Senegal in West Africa.
New York’s 1st Congressional District hosts this election cycle’s most Jewish race, and one that provides valuable insight into a question on the minds of many Republicans.
People living in a weak democracy know too well that dangerous rhetoric leads to dangerous consequences.
As Israel’s municipal elections, scheduled for October 30, come closer, we are caught between two Jerusalems.
I didn’t want to listen to Hagai El-Ad, director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, as he provided an official briefing to the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank last week.
In August, the CW announced that Australian actor Ruby Rose had been cast to play Batwoman in a new series based on the comic books. But some have criticized the casting choice on the basis that Rose is not Jewish.
With recent polling putting the contest within the margin of error, Florida’s razor-thin gubernatorial race, pitting two Evangelical Protestant Democrats against two Catholic Republicans, may hinge on the state’s Jews.
Liam Hoare
Four months ago, our daughter gave birth to our first grandchild.
