Three Great Reads from the Jewish Journal
Since when are Jews a “privileged class? How do you handle Mother’s Day when things are difficult with your mom? Is the right to vote a Jewish value?
Over the past several years, Jews have been stripped of any claims to minority status. They have a new origin story in America: one that involves Plymouth Rock and bypasses Ellis Island altogether. A new rainbow of progressivism, with its spectrum of escalating oppressions, has outed Jews as full-fledged members of the oppressor class…
Of all the 613 mitzvot in the Torah, I’ve always found the fifth commandment to be the most difficult to uphold: “Honor you father and your mother as Hashem your G-d has commanded you, so that you will lengthen your days and so that it will be good for you on the land that Hashem your G-d has given to you” (Devarim 5:16).
As American Jews, we have an obligation to heed President Biden’s ominous warning to Congress that, “if we are to truly restore the soul of America — we need to protect the sacred right to vote.” [.] Amid these challenges, our Jewish values compel us to act…