November 4, 2024
The 2024 election season has been marked by controversy and marred by ever-fluctuating polls. Here in Ohio, there are several important races, including a citizen ballot measure, Issue 1, that […]
November 4, 2024
Thursday, Oct. 24, marked a quiet victory for the Cincinnati Jewish community: Two pieces of state legislation to support Jewish students, passed in the last hours of this summer’s Ohio […]
November 1, 2024
When Rabbi Lauren Werber heard that Congregation Beth Adam was searching for a successor to founding Rabbi Robert Barr, who was planning his retirement, she was unsure about applying for […]
October 30, 2024
In Nov. 2023, Emily Fisher took time off from teaching to go on an educational trip to Europe and learn about antisemitism. On the trip, part of the Jewish Federation […]
October 29, 2024
Some years ago, I was introduced to a young woman through some mutual friends. She was a lovely person and had a lot of questions for me — I was […]
October 28, 2024
At the beginning, I thought maybe to tell my friends to leave, but at that point, it was already too late. They’re shooting and trying to kidnap us or kill […]
October 24, 2024
To most of the world, the date is the October 7. To me it will always be Simchat Torah. The memory of the juxtaposition of the joyful singing and dancing […]
October 22, 2024
One of my favorite Talmudic phrases, maiy nafka mina, literally means, “what comes out of it,” a sort of rabbinic, “So what?” For a study of antisemitism in this moment, […]
October 19, 2024
Daniel Birnbaum, former CEO of SodaStream and High Holiday Hazzan at Adath Israel synagogue for much of the late 1990s and early aughts, is offering $100,000 in cash or bitcoin […]
October 17, 2024
I was a high schooler in Jerusalem when the father of mass terrorism against my people, Yassar Arafat, died. His death brought me messy emotions: Satisfaction that this agent of […]