From the Editor

You park your car in the driveway and it is stolen overnight. That happens all too often just about everywhere. A few days later the police call to say...

  Thirty-one years later, I’m still searching for answers. My family, my friends, and my readers these last two decades know that Chanukah of 1989 shook me up and changed...

The worst thing you can say about Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio is that despite having aides who are members of the Jewish community, at the...

  In days gone by it would have been a natural and even expected consequence of some of our reporting. But that was when The Jewish Week, a once-upon-a-time weekly...

  Jonathan Pollard is finally free to go to Israel and live in the land for which he literally gave so much of his life. Over all these decades, the attitude...

It was a throwback to events of a half-century ago. It was a snowy day in Brooklyn, freezing cold, as we waited at our street corner for the bus...

The poet W.H. Auden said, “We are free to choose, but choose we must.” And that seemingly applies to the dilemma in which we find ourselves when figuring out...

  By the time you read this, it looks like it will be raining and much cooler than it was last weekend. That beautiful weather we had last weekend and...

Sometimes history refuses to properly scan its records and select a period in its files to use once more. The adage that history repeats itself may be a credible...

  Chanukah is not for another month but that does not mean that I’m not thinking about it — I am. This year we will mark my father’s 31st yahrzeit....