NEW YORK -- It was the spring of 1987 and the Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department's Nazi prosecution unit, which I headed at the time, was in the midst of one of our most productive and historic periods. On April 27, as a result of...

NEW YORK -- Even Borat, the bumblingly anti-Semitic comic character, could not have contrived a more absurd and utterly offensive assemblage: David Duke, erstwhile Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, alongside Robert Faurisson, the French pseudo-academic...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is a man of good intentions. His tireless efforts, deeply rooted in his interpretation of his Christian duties, to promote world peace need to be recognized, even when they lead him astray. Thus, there is a tragic element...

JERUSALEM -- It would be hard to imagine a more stark contrast than the scenes I saw last week on the two banks of the Sava River, both part of the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp, on the territory of former Yugoslavia. On the northern bank,...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jimmy Carter was the best friend the Jews ever had as president of the United States. He is the only president to have actually delivered for the Jewish people an agreement -- the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt -- that has stood...

NEW YORK -- After six years of Republican control of both houses of the U.S. Congress and the executive branch, analysts see the Democratic victory in midterm elections as a repudiation of the way the Iraq war has been waged, unhappiness over the Bush...

NEW YORK -- At a time when it faces challenges from many directions, Israel has difficult decisions to make regarding how to proceed with the Palestinians. It's important and legitimate that all options be explored, and it's natural and inevitable that...

By now, most people are familiar with major Israeli media providing wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing of northern Israel and fighting in Lebanon. The major players include the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Kol Israel and many others in both Hebrew and...

Hell has broken loose in Lebanon and Israel. There are two enormous apprehensions: the war itself and the possibility that it could spread to Syria and Iran. The latter two are the overt arms suppliers of Hezbollah, a rancid terrorist group with significant...

More than a million of the six million victims of the shoa were infants and children. Survivors of Ravensbruck, the women's camp, told how newborn babies were brutally destroyed before their mothers' eyes. The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington devotes...

For a Jewish media constantly scouting for scandals, it was the perfect pluralistic storm. Israeli President Moshe Katsav declined to call Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie "Rav," and the latter, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, took umbrage. The...

On Monday, June 12, a disastrous accident occurred at the Beit Yehoshua railroad crossing near Netanya. A van and a pickup truck, coming from opposite directions, were in the process of (legally) crossing the train tracks when the left front of the van...