Hamas gloats at terror and encourages death. The Palestinian Authority condemns violence then implicitly excuses it in the next breath. And all in the first hours of mourning after an abominable terrorist attack on Jews.That’s the deplorable state of...

Amidst the recent spate of horrific acts of terrorism and violence in Jerusalem, the Israeli government has offered a long overdue ray of sunshine to Israelis and Jews worldwide.The new measure, effective immediately, allows municipal rabbis to perform...

Some of the language used by United States, Israeli and Palestinian officials in recent days sounds more like the escalating rhetoric between opponents at a World Wrestling Federation grudge match than the serious diplomacy demanded by these critical...

“Receiving ordination, however, is not the end of the rabbi’s career as a student of the Torah. On the contrary -- it’s just the beginning. A community rabbi will continue his search for knowledge and truth for the rest of his life, in the hopes...

In the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation.” So said U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week,...

Through the years, discussing new approaches to intermarried members of the Jewish community was considered the “third rail” of community discourse. With the Jewish community already comprising less than 3 percent of the total American population,...

We wonder what the American Family Association of Indiana thinks of Scientology.Not that you’d care, right? Well, a lawsuit in that state might get you interested pretty quickly.The suit was filed in federal court against Indiana State Trooper Brian...

The “genocide” claims hurled against Israel by Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat are obviously specious on any number of levels.  That Abbas, Palestinian Authority President, and Erekat, PA chief negotiator, have chosen this particular...

A couple years ago we and our Can We Talk? partners, the Jewish Community Center and Jewish Community Relations Council, devoted an installment of the program to the question of how we as a Jewish community can constructively talk about Israel.As Jews...

Secretary of State John Kerry over the weekend assembled an impressive array of allies willing to take part in what President Barack Obama’s administration is now calling its “war” on the ultraviolent Islamist group ISIS. In addition to such NATO...

The relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is becoming the diplomatic equivalent of the on-again-off-again, tough love union of the late Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. In what might become the seventh official “break-up” of...

Our beloved Israel still hasn’t emerged from its seemingly perpetual public relations quagmire.After the Israeli Defense Forces succeeded admirably in defending the country during Operation Protective Edge, it looked like the world was coming around...