The 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ approval of its partition plan for Palestine went by last week with little notice. And the related issues that have been simmering in Israel for decades remain.If the U.N. General Assembly had not approved...

When Eric Greitens started his political career by winning the race for Missouri governor last fall, he told voters he wanted to do things differently in Jefferson City. But his clumsy, unsuccessful attempts to fire the state’s education commissioner...

The list of men in the worlds of entertainment and politics who have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct grows almost daily. So do the strange alliances that such allegations create. But the odd makeup of the groups of supporters and detractors...

For a group with such a noble-sounding name, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) did little to move toward its goal with its protest in Clayton last week.Members of the group went to the local headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League to deliver a petition...

With memories still fresh of a cemetery desecration here  and vicious taunts from marchers in Charlottesville, the latest statistics from the Anti-Defamation League on anti-Semitic incidents should come as no surprise. But that doesn’t make them any...

While the search continues for the right formula to implement a two-state solution for Israel, valuable lessons and caveats can be found in the situation in Sudan, to the south of the Jewish State.As noted last week in a Wall Street Journal article by...

Buried beneath other news developments in recent days — from sexual harassment in Hollywood to protesting football players to the alleged disrespect shown to the mother of a fallen soldier — is a piece of good news that deserves more attention. Raqqa,...

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the Missouri could provide funds to a church in Columbia to make its playground safer, winds of change began to blow around the meaning of the First Amendment.Then came a series of storms that devastated...

Over the past decade, several reconciliation deals between Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestinian Authority under the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Hamas, the militant offshoot of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, have been announced with...

With another date for action approaching, President Donald Trump has made clear he will refuse to certify that Iran is in compliance with the controversial nuclear arms deal reached under Barack Obama in 2015.That refusal would pass the issue along to...

With hurricanes and earthquakes, protest marches and the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas dominating the headlines, four recent news developments affecting Israel and Jews worldwide have attracted little notice. But as the new year 5778 begins, they...

In his blistering debut speech at last week’s opening of the United Nations General Assembly, any effort by President Donald Trump to appear diplomatic disappeared when he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea over its possible use of atomic...