NYJW Opinion

For a microcosm of the varying approaches to intermarriage as it continues to increase, consider the family of Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Lab/Shul rabbi who plans to resign from the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement so he can officiate at marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Rabbi Lau-Lavie’s first cousin, David Lau, is the Ashkenazi chief […]

There has been much analysis of President Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East, most of it focused on the abundance of “optics” and the lack of substance. One thing is clear to me, however: Even though the president never uttered the words “two-state solution,” what he said and did points to that outcome. The […]