Modern-Day Slavery: Bringing Awareness to Human Trafficking in 2017
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month serves as a time to bring awareness to the issue of modern-day slavery: the trafficking in persons that occ
At the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Virtual Encounter with a Syrian Refugee
Omar is in his late 20s. He's participating in an exhibition at the museum, "Genocide: The Threat Continues," and we're conversing, face to face, via video chat. I'm in D.C. and he's at the cafe in Germany's capital.
Startling Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents Strengthens Our Resolve to Pursue Justice
In the weeks immediately following the most recent election, a startling jump in anti-Semitic incidents swept across the country.
One Morning in a Mosque in America...
A Jewish teacher in an Islamic school, I shared a message from the local Jewish community. “We stand side by side with our Muslim brothers and sisters."
Vital Stimulus Package Must Also Support Most Vulnerable Communities
Saperstein: "The number of Americans in need is expanding, and so must our compassion, creativity, and collective will to help them through this trying time."
Providing Sanctuary for Immigrants Facing Deportation
When It Comes to Anti-Semitism, Here's Why I'm Not Surprised
Yesterday, someone drew a swastika on the sign-box outside of Klau Library on the Cincinnati campus of the Reform seminary. I am outraged and sickened and saddened. But I am not speechless.
Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel, and My Father
January 27, 2005 marked the 60th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz. On that same day, the U.N. declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Why Jews Don’t Want to Make Judaism Great Again
It would be an error to believe that Judaism fits into the current wave of reactionary nostalgia. In fact, idealizing the past is plainly antithetical to a foundational principle of Judaism: that history is a progression.