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By Andrew Adler Community Editor Mandrake – do you recall what Clemenceau said about war? He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor One of the first things I noticed after returning to Louisville three years ago was how many emails were either to or from someone whose name began with “Rabbi.” It’s the nature of my job as Community editor … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Anyone who still harbors doubt as to the sheer vehemence of worldwide antisemitism need only have been on Sydney, Australia’s Bondi Beach during the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. In what was to be … Read More
By Andrew ADLER Community Editor For as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving was the only holiday on the secular calendar that our family celebrated with what could be termed traditional authenticity. Each November my mother would revert to something … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor I’m casting my thoughts back 28 years, when my then-fiancée and I were fledgling members of Congregation Adath Jeshurun. AJ would soon be embarking on its annual retreat in the Indiana countryside, and people I barely … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Spoiler Alert: The following is intended both in the spirit of parody (the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge certainly exist, but — as far as I can tell — there’s no such institution as the University … Read More
By Andrew Adler If the tortured history of the Middle East has taught us anything, it’s that the transition from war and destruction to peace and tranquility is at best tenuous and at worst catastrophic. How many times over … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Judaism occupied both the center and periphery of daily life. At the center was my father’s abiding, multigenerational connection to his working-class Jewish foundations; the periphery … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor In its quest to shape the hearts and minds of Jews both inside and outside the country, Israel’s media has staked out positions across the political spectrum. By turns fascinating, energizing, exhausting and frustrating, Israeli … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Anyone doubting the fraught nature of contemporary American Jewish life need only to scan the Anti-Defamation League’s recently released annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents to be reminded – via statistic after sobering statistic – that we … Read More