HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Normally, to quote the famous song, “I love a parade.”Except when I don’t.This weekend was the celebration of the 49th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. The anniversary was accompanied by gleeful...

Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad 75 years ago in June 1941. In the case of my own family, it was a matter of heeding the advice of a Muslim business colleague of my grandfather, who...

Stuart Zimmerman is fully immersed in the time of life that he refers to as “Phase Four.”  Some might call it retirement, but not Stuart.  What were his first three phases?  Phase 1—childhood and education.  Phase 2—a successful 28-year CPA...

There is something so wonderful about the beginning of June. Okay, so it’s the month of my birthday, but honestly, I wasn’t even going down that path here! June signifies the onset of summer vacation, the official opening of neighborhood swimming...

With the 2016 presidential campaign slouching toward the party conventions in July and the election still five months distant, I’ve concluded based on observation, conversation, rumination, speculation and no social science research whatsoever that...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Welcoming teens into Jewish life is both one of the most important and seemingly challenging endeavors of the Jewish community. The rapid decline in teen engagement in Jewish life post-b’nai mitzvah is well-documented and depressing....

Despite leaving the world an unsafer place than when he found it, President Barack Obama isn’t shying away from busting those foreign policy taboos. The president who brought us a nuclear deal with the Iranian mullahs, and who gave Cuba’s fossilized...