Opinion

I had a wonderful opportunity to spend time with Kid #1 when we were both visiting my parents. We took a walk and I was gushing about my recent fortunate opportunities to hear Joe Russo’s...

The first time I touched a dead body was in a sanitized room inside a Dallas funeral home. I was stationed next to Ana’s toenails, with a small toothpick and a Q-tip. While firmly holding...

Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, begins Saturday evening. Traditionally, Jews have fasted on this day that marks the destruction of both of Jerusalem’s holy temples in 423 BCE and...

I want to address the issues raised by Alan Stein in his July 21 letter responding my July 7 letter to the editor. It is amazing that those who defend Israeli action go back centuries...

I just finished reading the article on the graduates from the Epstein Hillel School (“Eleven graduate from Hillel School,” Jewish Journal, July 7). The article included all of the speakers and a picture of the...

HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. – A metronome of bullets. A child’s scream. It’s all too much. In the land of the free and the home of the brave, what other choice do we have but to...

As the Jan. 6 Congressional Hearings proceed, and as Americans learn more about what led up to the insurrection at the Capitol, it has become obvious just how much our democracy was tested that day....

Over at Turtle Bay on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, a man just bit a dog. Not really. But – you hardly noticed this, though its significance is enormous – the United Nations headquartered...

Back in December, human beings launched into space a new $10 billion dollar telescope, 21 feet in diameter and, like many great temples, covered with golden mirrors. The James Webb Space Telescope is 100 times...