Wednesday would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday. How would she have updated her diary today?

Friday night marks the start of Passover, when Jews around the world hold a Seder – a feast that includes special foods, prayers, songs and other traditions to mark the exodus of our ancestors from slavery in Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

The U.S. House failed to meet its moral, social and political obligations to the American people Thursday when it refused to condemn anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar by name for her embrace of vile and hateful stereotypes and slurs that have been leveled against Jews since ancient times.

On Jan. 27, 1945 Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, where the Nazis murdered approximately 1.3 million people – including 1.1 million Jews. The date, which falls on Sunday this year, is marked around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For Israel, 2019 will bring great achievements but also great disappointments.

The Jewish Festival of Lights recalls the improbable victory of a small band of Jews in the land of Israel during the second century BCE against a Syrian-Greek king who had outlawed all public Jewish rituals.

President Trump should convene a meeting of religious leaders to work against hatred, in the wake of the synagogue mass murder in Pittsburgh.

This July Fourth, Hallel Yaffa’s family will be sitting Shiva. The young American-Israeli teenage girl died of multiple stab wounds while she slept in her bed, by a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who had praised Adolf Hitler on his Facebook page.