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Jan 13, 2022, 2:44 PM

What sort of world will our children and theirs inhabit?

Climate change. (Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash) Via Jewish News

In Glasgow last November, prime minister Boris Johnson said: “If we don’t get serious about climate change today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow.” As a father and new grandfather, this resonated with me. What world will my children,...

Jul 21, 2020, 5:15 PM

Hair taken from Uyghurs shows eerie echoes of the past

Human hair seized by US customs reportedly taken from Uyghur Muslims in China. (Jewish News)

I’ve visited Auschwitz-Birkenau a number of times, but there are many sights at which still haunt me. The ruins of the gas chambers. A room filled with prosthetic limbs. The clothes of small children. And a long cabinet, stretching the full length of a bunker,...

Jul 2, 2020, 3:34 PM

So grateful that we can once again say ‘mah tovu’

Inside a Synagogue (Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash via Jewish News)

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write as president of the United Synagogue: I’ve not been to shul in months. I miss it. I really miss it. I find my connection to God and to the prayers I’m saying are stronger in shul. I...

Oct 29, 2018, 6:15 PM

Pittsburgh: Let’s respond

People gather at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall for a vigil to remember the victims of the mass shooting a day earlier at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (Andrew Rush/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP - via Jewish News)

I want to ask you to do something in response to the tragedy in Pittsburgh. Let me explain. I spent last weekend with the United Synagogue’s Tribe trip to Poland. This is an educational trip for Year 12 students, which, this year, had 86 participants....

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Michael Goldstein is the President of the United Synagogue