The world Jewish community and fair-minded people everywhere were shocked and dismayed by the recent vote by the new British University and College Union, which supports a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. The fact that an organized union...

Israel's democratically elected Knesset is right to be pushing forward with a bill reaffirming that all lands belonging to the Jewish National Fund should continue to be leased to Jews in accordance with terms of the organization's charter. Critics of...

Imagine the following scenario: Italy's Parliament passes a law that restricts the sale of public lands to Christians. Government officials rush to justify the measure, citing historic ties between Italy and the Roman Catholic Church. Nonetheless, the...

Last Monday, at a vigil and ceremony organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, Jewish and general community leaders gathered in support of the demand, "FREE the Soldiers," referring to the three Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped...

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectual ground had he simply sent the following notice to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times, the usual address for high-powered wedding...

A development that would have been politically and diplomatically impossible for most of Israel's 59 years of existence took place last Wednesday when the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan met with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem, the Arab nations' first...

However tempting, it would be a mistake to dismiss Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman's personal and pointed critique of Modern Orthodoxy in The New York Times Magazine of July 22 as merely "The Big Kvetch." His essay "Orthodox Paradox," which surely...

I just came back from Israel, which seems to be experiencing "conference season." During June and July, there were conferences held by the Hebrew University Board of Governors, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the ROI Global Summit for Jewish Innovators....

For a number of years, I have been advocating the importance of constructively engaging Syria, not only to improve the prospects for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, but to substantially contribute to the stability of the Middle East. With security...

When physicians complete their rigorous medical education and receive the title of Doctor of Medicine, they are administered the Hippocratic Oath, a solemn vow of ethical behavior attributed to the famous ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. The Hippocratic...

Last week, Pope Benedict XVI issued a Motu Proprio, defined as a declaration issued in his own name, which authorized greater use of the Latin Mass, an ancient form of Roman Catholic worship that includes a prayer, read only on Good Friday which calls...

NEW YORK -- With anti-Semitism resurgent in the world, one of the encouraging elements for the Jewish people, particularly if one is to compare things today to the 1930s and 1940s, is the remarkable change in the Catholic Church's attitudes toward Jews....