In the last several weeks alone, Chattanooga and Charleston happened,  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced, and James Holmes was found guilty in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater killings.As a society, we are so deeply pained and impassioned...

You may approve of the P5+1 deal with Iran or you may loathe it. But one thing’s for certain:There’s a new world order inherent in this deal, and it doesn’t start or end with the United Nations or its Security Council. And that’s a very good thing...

He just doesn’t get it. The “he” refers to David Azoulay, Israel’s Religious Services Minister.The “it” refers to Reform Judaism, which, outrageously, Azoulay does not acknowledge as legitimate Judaism.You heard that right: While Jewish leaders...

“Marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death.”— Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his majority opinion upholding same-sex marriageIn a victory for human rights as historic and dramatic as Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregated...

Insanity is a very tricky proposition.There’s insanity as defined by psychiatrists, insanity defined under the law, and the more generic definition of “extreme foolishness or irrationality” that we loosely use to describe behavior that makes us,...

Supporters of Israel’s right to proclaim Jerusalem as its eternal capital were disheartened last week when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that passports issued to Americans born in Jerusalem cannot state “Jerusalem, Israel,” but must merely state...

The federal judicial and state legislative branches hold the future of Missouri health care in their hands. How the former acts, and whether the latter changes its mind, will affect health care here for years to come.The federal challenge to the Affordable...

Is it important to have an independent Jewish press?Well, we think so, particularly this week, as the American Jewish Press Association released the winners of the 2014 Simon Rockower awards for excellence in Jewish journalism. The Light was fortunate...

In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984,” the party leading the totalitarian government of Oceania touts the slogan “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” Who could have predicted that members of the United Nations,...

In a move that brought quick denunciations from Israeli officials and from the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Pope Francis last Wednesday announced a Vatican decision to officially recognize the “State of Palestine” in a formal treaty.The...

You don’t need to be the bombastic Pamela Geller to speak up against violence issued in the name of Islam. Violence issued in the name of any religion is wrongheaded and a serious threat to any civilized society.ISIS is wrong. Hamas is wrong. Hezbollah...

Once again, as has been true in so many previous natural disasters, the State of Israel has responded to the devastating earthquake in Nepal and its aftershocks, which have killed an estimated 7,000 people and  wounded uncounted thousands more, leaving...