OpEd

For persons below a certain age, the idea that “any person” could be sent to jail for using “any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception” must seem preposterous. Nevertheless, it took the Supreme Court’s 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, the anniversary of which we celebrate on June 7, to […]

‘There is nothing new under the sun,” wrote the author of the Bible’s Book of Ecclesiastes who, according to tradition, is King Solomon, the wisest of all men. Yet much of Jewish life, and particularly American Jewish culture, has been driven by the concept of innovation, or more precisely, balancing ancient tradition with creativity. It’s […]