NYJW Opinion

Scholarship and integrity should prompt Amichai Lau-Lavie to note that his proposal for restoring the lapsed “resident alien” category for the 21st-century American Jewish community (Jewish Week, June 16) is not at all novel. In a series of articles published in CCAR Journal (Spring 1973), Reform clergy heatedly debated the issue of rabbis solemnizing an […]

I am deeply disappointed that The Jewish Week has become such an enthusiastic supporter of interfaith marriage. In a recent article [posted on The Jewish Week website], JTA editor Andrew Silow-Carroll quotes a recent study by the Jewish People Policy in which the authors concluded that the Jewish engagement gap between the inmarried and intermarried […]