Story

When Public Shaming Is a Moral Disaster

The social media mob demands justice; it often achieves the opposite.

George Blake, a former MI6 officer, enters a car in Moscow, Russia on June 28, 2001.(Yuri Martianov/Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty Images)

George Blake, British spy for Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at 98

Blake did not identify as a Jew, but his Jewish background played a major role in his life.

Ideas

How Pixar’s ‘Soul’ borrows from an ancient Jewish idea

A midrash about the body-soul connection resonates while viewing the latest animated film to deal with big metaphysical issues, writes Rabbi Benjamin Resnick.

Politics

Federal appeals court strikes down New York’s capacity limits on houses of worship in areas with rising COVID cases

Bonds of Life

Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust survivor turned human rights advocate

New York

Cuomo Seeks Probe of Vaccine ‘Fraud’ at Brooklyn Clinic

Health

‘You will be prosecuted’: Cuomo promises consequences for vaccine fraud after ParCare scandal

Global

Zoom prayers and Jewish kids: UK Labour leader Keir Starmer opens up about his Jewish family

Obituaries

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members

New York

Chasidic-run Clinic Said to Ignore Rules in Offering Vaccine

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