When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence with the help of Franklin and Adams, he used an interesting turn of phrase. “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” he wrote, when describing the natural state of equality the framers believed underpinned the act of revolut…
It is particularly apt just before Passover to consider that every generation of Jews asks the same question.
Is this moment different? Is it an echo? Or is it something completely unknown?
History teaches something more important than the answer itself: the question must always be asked.
…I’d like to share a personal, not organizational perspective this week.
We woke up last Shabbat, and within a short time, we all knew that the war had started.
That sounds like a statement of fact, but the truth is, it is incorrect.
“I am a Jew, part of the Jewish people, and only after that am I an Israeli - Because the State, as I understand it, was created for the entirety of the Jewish people and in their merit. The thing that sustained the Jewish people throughout all of the generations, and brought forth the sha…
Our community is privileged to have one of its own, Rockland born and raised Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, at the nexus of Black and Jewish identity in the US. Rabbi Rothstein is a Rabbinic Scholar and Public Affairs Advisor at the Jewish Federations of North America. He’s also the founder of th…
