OpEd

As a longtime advocate on behalf of Jonathan Pollard — and one of the first — I find the efforts now underway to try to convince Israel President Shimon Peres to decline the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in June unless President Barack Obama grants clemency to Pollard to be foolish and, in fact, counterproductive […]

Suggestions to get rid of the one-on-one teaching of haftorot are quite misguided. (“Changing Up The Bar And Bat Mitzvah Experience,” April 20). They project the years of vacuous or nonexistent parental (or even grandparental) Jewish upbringing onto the child’s few months of b’nai mitzvah training, and then look for “deep meaning” in a traditional […]