Think about the unbridled chutzpah surrounding the Temple Mount issues, which are being manipulated into a flashpoint for violence against Israeli Jews.The Temple Mount has been the worship province of Muslims for quite some time. Moshe Dayan, on the...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to display his hypocrisy as evidenced by his absurd speech to the United Nations General Assembly’s summit of heads of state and government last week.In his rambling address, Abbas suggested that...

What an interesting, vile and wholly hypocritical leader is Russian President Vladimir Putin.He has no problem with supporting the overthrow of Ukraine’s government and his own incursion into Crimea.But this week at the United Nations, he blasts the...

We’re used to the world becoming pawns in the game of American presidential politics. But when the chess moves result in direct and substantial damage to critical institutions, and particularly health and human services groups, it’s not so much fun...

If you’re looking for a High Holy Days metaphor about the Ferguson Commission report, we’d say that it got stuck somewhere between a sermon and a useful plan.That’s right. The huge set of calls to action, organized into almost four dozen recommendations...

“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”— From “The New Colossus” by Jewish-American...

“I believe — at a minimum — another 30 million new guns will be manufactured and sold before Barack Obama leaves office at the end of 2016.  I predict the numbers of firearms owned in the United States will easily top 400 million well before this...

3,000 years with no place to beAnd they want me to give up my milk and honeyDon’t you see, it’s not about the land or the seaNot the country but the dwelling of his majesty— lyrics from “Jerusalem,” by MatisyahuAmerican Jewish singer Matisyahu...

The Iran debate in the Jewish community is all over the board.Many American Jewish organizations are opposing the Iran deal, while some polls show a significant plurality of American Jews supporting it. Those polls are in contravention to those in which...

We can’t let the alleged criminal acts of a select few take away from what we’ve learned in the year after Michael Brown’s death. We just can’t.On Sunday, the nation watched as largely peaceful protests marking the anniversary of the initial events...

Acts of terrorism carried out by Israeli Jews have been relatively rare throughout the existence of the Jewish State. Their number, to be sure, has paled in comparison with the outsized number of such acts by Palestinian extremist groups such as Hamas,...

Mike Huckabee is both a cause and a symptom of the ugliest aspects of public discourse in America.He’s a cause because he spews vile rhetoric that ascribes evil to those with whom he disagrees, thus enabling the worst types of public discourse.He’s...