First Person
Weddings are lovely, but it’s the marriage that matters
On the eve of Tu B'Av and her wedding, a writer says we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden of Eden.
Opinion
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Opinion
We went to the border to support our friends. Our disagreements were for another time.
A rabbi asks: Where do you draw the line when allies criticize Israel?
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Opinion
Conservative movement is closing its gender gap, but there is still work to be done
The movement decided over 70 years ago that it would treat women in a new way, write the heads of its rabbis and cantors assemblies.
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Opinion
In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis
“By hating Hitler and trying to fight back,” Henry Cadbury told a roomful of American rabbis, "Jews are only increasing the severity of his policies against them.”
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Editor's Column
Is ‘non-Jew’ an insult?
Activists for interfaith families want us all to watch the language we use to refer to the Other.
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Opinion
US immigration policies are straight out of the Bible — the story of Sodom
By Jill JacobsSodom oppressed strangers and punished the merciful, writes Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who visited an immigrant detention center in Texas.
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Opinion
Charles Krauthammer: ‘How dreams of peace led to Israel’s biggest mistake’
The Oslo Accords will stand as perhaps the most catastrophic, self-inflicted wound by any state in modern history, the late columnist wrote in 2002.
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Editor's Column
Holocaust comparisons are muddying the immigration debate
Jeff Sessions' remarks on the Trump administration's border policy were off base, but so was the criticism of his opponents.
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Opinion
Any volunteers? You are tomorrow’s Jewish doers and leaders.
By Eli OvitsWhat we learned about the benefits of volunteerism could help almost any institution in creating more effective communities, writes the chief executive of Limmud.
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Opinion
The road to LGBTQ acceptance in Israel was bumpy. I should know.
The author, who won a landmark discrimination suit against El Al in 1994, remembers when being gay in Israel meant being meek and mild.
