As the world focuses on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner, we might be missing some all-too-rare signs of meaningful progress on the most intractable problem in the Middle East: achieving the long-sought...

Jews starve. That’s about as plainly as we can say it.As we reported in our recent “Can We Talk?” series, “No Place At The Table,” which focused on hunger, as well as the companion discussion event at the Jewish Community Center, Jews suffer...

With a stunning speed not seen since the sudden collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1989, Ukraine’s dictatorial President Viktor Yanukovych has been voted out of office by the nation’s Parliament. The coalition against...

Every time a tiny glimmer of hope arises from the ashes of war-torn Syria, it is swept aside by the harsh reality of the brutal civil war that has claimed the lives of 135,000 Syrians and displaced as many as 9.5 million citizens from their homes.This...

In Olympic season, as LGBT issues swirl in Vladimir Putin’s officially homophobic Russia, history reminds us of what the world stage can bring in terms of social change and justice. Jesse Owens in 1936 Berlin. John Carlos and Tommie Smith on the medal...

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, between 1990 and 2002 then-U.S. Sen. John Kerry supported the pro-Israel position on 55 different resolutions, bills, conference committees and other matters. He opposed the Israeli position once, and did not sign...

This is a period of considerable ferment within the Orthodox Jewish community, in both the United States and in the State of Israel. There are increasing signs that within the Modern Orthodox Jewish community some traditional practices are being modified...

If the Israeli Knesset adopts an ill-advised bill that would ban the use of the term “Nazi” in most contexts, publication of this editorial in Israel might constitute a crime punishable by a fine of as much as $29,000 and up to six months in jail.The...

Ariel Sharon’s battle for survival finally, and sadly, ended Saturday at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv.The former Israeli prime minister, who died at age 85, had spent the past eight years at the hospital after suffering a massive stroke, which...

In the aftermath of the success of the Navy Seals operation to kill Osama bin Laden, and the later successful drone strikes that depleted leadership of al Qaeda, President Barack Obama declared the terror organization “decimated.”Yet every time there...

In what has become a predictable—and dreary—cycle, the Israeli government has announced new West Bank settlement building. Per Joshua Mitnick in the Wall Street Journal, the “move (is) intended to ease criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

A little over 800 members of the American Studies Association — not even 25 percent of its 3,853-person membership but two-thirds of those who voted in an online referendum — favored a boycott against Israeli academic institutions rooted in that nation’s...