Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn, BCC is the Rabbanit at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ. She is also a hospital chaplain and the president of Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains.

Discussions of the new trade deal with Japan—including my own comments here—remind me that it is incumbent on all of us who write about trade to be honest about how much politics, and not pure ...