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Dec 31, 2020, 9:09 PM

How long will it take?

Double-headed Janus can look forward and backward, but this year of all years we keep our eyes fixed firmly ahead. Eyes on the prize, and that prize is an end to this half-life we’ve been living. I’ve been thinking about...

Zalman Myer-Smith

Mar 4, 2020, 7:37 PM

It’s Quiet Now

Pandemic - the mere word conjures up imagery from Wuhan, China with governmental agencies scrambling to stem the progress of coronavirus and mitigate both further damage and panic. Without a proactive vaccination and reactive antidote, it may continue to...

Jan 9, 2020, 9:49 PM

Holding strong, reaching out, facing anti-Semitism

V'hei shamda l'avoteynu v'lanu. "You have stood with our ancestors and with us. (Evildoers) did not arise only singly and at one time to destroy us (but again and again). And the holy one blessed be he preserved us...

Jan 2, 2020, 2:18 AM

The Science of Keeping Jewish-Americans Vulnerable

The shocking wave of anti-Semitic attacks in recent weeks in Democrat-run cities and leftist college campuses across the United States have hardly scandalized the think tank progressives who are taking this opportunity to lecture the Jewish-Americans under assault about...

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Dec 31, 2019, 6:42 PM

The Jews of New Jersey and New York are waiting. We are waiting for someone to tell us when the attacks on our brethren will cease. We are waiting for someone to tell us that there is a plan of action...

Adam S. Ferziger

Dec 27, 2019, 12:07 PM

8 candles: Hanukkah and anti-Semitism 2019

Students from Manhattan's Ramaz School deliver Hanukkah gifts for children in the Satmar Jewish community in Jersey City, following a the deadly shooting attack on a kosher market. (Facebook)

Armed security, handgun training for congregants, a polarized discourse, and an improbable act of Jewish solidarity in Jersey City

Dec 24, 2019, 12:01 AM

First Night of Hanukkah in Jersey City, NJ

Photo credit: Bryan E. Leib

Last night marked the first night of Hanukkah for Jews all around the world but for the Jewish community of Jersey City it was also 12 days after the brutal terrorist attack against their community in the Greenville section...

Dec 21, 2019, 10:20 PM

Now, after Jersey City, can we Hasidic Jews be taken seriously?

Satmar Rabbi David Niederman attends a Brooklyn news conference with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea to denounce the hate crime attack in Jersey City, Dec. 12, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The murderous attack didn’t happen in a void — it came after years when other Jews ignored hate and mockery aimed at my community

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