Climate change is a difficult issue to grasp. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is warming and that the emission of greenhouse gases are a cause, but it’s hard to identify the milestones of these changes in our everyday lives.- Read Story -
Another chapter in the Bernard Madoff saga has closed, with a federal judge this week condemning as “extraordinarily evil” the crimes of the once prominent businessman, and imposing on him the maximum sentence of 150 years.- Read Story -
Accustomed as he is to public speaking here and around the country, David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee, can read an audience as well as anyone. Lately, he says, he is "hearing a growing number of questions and concerns about the U.S.-Israel relationship, and a sense that the Obama administration’s response to the Iran crisis was slower than it should have been."...- Read Story -
Think of the American Jewish community as a business — a more than $10 billion annual business. If our organizations and leaders made programming decisions based on that notion, perhaps they would be building a stronger, larger and more effective Jewish community.- Read Story -
The growing burden of day school tuitions has, as Gary Rosenblatt recently noted in these pages, ironically focused new attention on supplementary Jewish education. Families who firmly believe in the value of day school education,...- Read Story -
Why did the media speak of a "white supremacist" when James von Brunn shot his way into the Washington Holocaust Museum? His Web site is replete with hate for Jews, denies the Holocaust, speaks of Jews as the source of evil in the world. He should be characterized as a Nazi.- Read Story -
In A.S. Byatt’s "Angels and Insects" she makes the point that creatures are most vulnerable at the point of metamorphosis, as when the caterpillar is struggling to get out of pupa. Energies devoted to change cannot easily be diverted to protection.
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I count innumerable insights and lessons among the many gifts that my father, Rabbi Gerald Wolpe, z”l, bequeathed to his children and congregation. Late last month he passed away. In his honor and memory, here is one of his teachings:...- Read Story -
It was a strange end of the school year for my family. Two of my daughters missed the last day of school, one because she had a confirmed case of the flu, the other because she either had the flu as well, or a virus that looked a lot like it. In either case, they were each homebound.- Read Story -
