Editorials

The cards are stacked against Israel no matter what it does, but that doesn’t excuse the Israel government’s failures on the West Bank.

If journalists value the free press and are troubled by attacks on it, journalists must live up to their own standards of curiosity, rigor and accountability; they must pursue the real story and not a token one, and a substantiated story and not a sloppy one.

Each of the Four Species is symbolically connected to a part of the human body — etrog the heart, lulav the backbone, myrtle the eyes and willow the lips. Accordingly, Moving Traditions has drawn a Sukkot chart: “Embodying Sukkot.”

Omer Shem Tov, 20, was held by Hamas for 505 days in underground tunnels in Gaza, mostly in the dark. About 100 days in — he can’t be sure since he couldn’t keep track of time — the Israel Defense Forces fought above ground, where he was held, and left behind various items.

The 1970s gave us some ridiculous things, although some thought they were pretty cool back then — the fashions, the decor and this meme from the sappy movie, “Love Story”: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

In the aftermath of the Six Day War, Israel took control of the Jordan River Valley and built settlements there. The Jordan River was the favored entry point of Palestinian terrorists into Israel. The Jewish settlements there — literally on the West Bank of the Jordan River — protected Israel against Palestinian terrorism.

From the micro to the macro: I pray for my heightened focus on each and every word in our prayers and for health for our whole family — and for the excision of the hatred that besets our people and the end to weapons that threaten our people.

When is an apology an apology? When it’s made by fashion designer John Galliano. When is an apology not an apology? When it’s made by US Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He offers a non-apology apology.

“Hurt people hurt people.” This was the considered reaction of Abdul El-Sayed to the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield last March 14. A car rammed the temple. That it killed no one was a miracle, doubly so because it rammed past the preschool.

At age 99, Holocaust survivor Cantor Zachary Kutner led yizkor with the zest of his youth. He had survived seven selections at Auschwitz yet emerged with a contagious joie d’vivre.