Thirty-three years after the collapse of Nazi Germany, Jews were alive and well in America. I was fresh out of college at the time, facing a rotten US economy and having a tough time finding job opportunities. When a suburban Temple’s Hebrew high school program offered a teaching position despite the awkwardness of my being

This article first appeared October 17 in JTA I was saddened to hear of the death of Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old college student driven to suicide by bullying over his sexual orientation. While Clementi’s case has grabbed national headlines, it sadly is far from unique. Last September alone, no fewer than six boys in the

Nicholas Goldberg, editor of the Los Angeles Times’ op-ed section, published an article in that paper portraying Israel as a nation exhausted and suffering from a deep malaise. The summer’s failed war in Lebanon, the inability of the Israel Defense Forces to stop the Kassam barrage coming from the Gaza Strip, and ongoing corruption and