The most important thing about an interview is knowing how you intend to start.After that, an interview should take on a life of its own, just like any other conversation. But the first time I interviewed Elie Wiesel, in 1985, I evidently forgot that...

Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor and author who died over the weekend at the age of 87, was a towering intellect who became “the conscience of the world,” in the words of President Barack Obama. He also was a true...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas must have been surprised at the international outcry over his accusation last week that Israeli rabbis are plotting to poison Arab wells. After all, Abbas and his colleagues have been making similar allegations...

These are the days that Vladimir Putin has been aching for since the end of the Cold War. On Dec. 5, 1989, three weeks after the Berlin Wall was torn down, angry crowds stormed the Dresden Headquarters of the Stasi, the brutal secret police of the Soviet...

CHICAGO — On June 16, the New Jersey Assembly is expected to have a final vote on a bill restricting the state’s dealings with companies that boycott Israel. The measure, S1923/A925, would have the Garden State join the nine states that have already...

BOSTON (JTA) — In the wake of the Orlando shooting, statements of solidarity with the LGBTQ community quickly tumbled forth. Some expressions of support came from unlikely sources such as the Orthodox Union and the Catholic Church. But what does a statement...

“ ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” — Jeremiah 8:11“Better to jaw-jaw than to war-war,” said British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a White House visit in 1954. Indeed the master statesman of the 20th century preferred...

The next time I hear one of my students or anyone else demand “safe spaces” that spare them any discomfort from offensive or even contrary viewpoints of which they disapprove, I will think of the thousands of American and Allied soldiers who fought...