Editorial

Passover, which begins after sundown on Monday, April 18, has several names. It is commonly called Chag HaPesach, the Feast...

Execute true justice; deal kindly and compassionately with one another. Do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and...

The showdown between Wisconsin public employees and Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature is in its third week. Rather...

Mubarak’s out. The kids in Tunisia and Egypt plotted on Facebook and Twitter, and shocked the world by organizing insurrections...

In the Nov. 12, 2010, edition of the American Jewish World, I published the eulogy I wrote for my father....

A year-end journalistic convention is the compilation of top news stories. In many cases this exercise results in a superficial...

I went to the theater last week. It’s a gem of a local theater, just a few blocks from my...

In the May 29, 2009, AJW editorial, I wrote about the case of four ex-convicts, all converts to Islam, who...

Hanuka is back! Perhaps some wonder when it ever was gone. According to Jenna Weissman Joselit, the Charles E. Smith...

Early in my career at the Jewish World, likely while writing an obituary for a member of our local community,...