While the world is focused on Iran's program to produce nuclear weapons, there is another, lesser-known project with perilous ramifications on which Iran has exerted great effort -- hijacking the Palestinian Authority from within. Iran has been supporting...

Hundreds of Jewish families living in tents, dormitories and rundown hotels with minimal belongings and no work. Government bodies and officials unable or unwilling to implement solutions to their misery. Israel of the 1950s or Israel in the post-disengagement...

We are facing a crisis on our college campuses: Anti-Semitism and vicious anti-Israel sentiment are flourishing, and many Jewish students are feeling harassed and intimidated. The crisis must be addressed, and there are legal tools we can use. The anti-Semitism...

Even in tragedy -- perhaps especially there -- food for Jewish thought abounds. It is wrenching to imagine the grief of the families of the 12 miners who were found dead on January 4 after an explosion two days earlier in a West Virginia coal mine. More...

It seems that the American Jewish community will do just about anything to make future generations Jewish. Through their demographic studies, our community tracks the rise of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage and the rejection by many young Jews of...

We Jews thought it was tough being a minority. Apparently it's tougher being the majority. There's an actual "war" on Christmas. That's what Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson of Fox News tell us. The supermajority is under siege. It's time to take back the...

It's no longer front page news, it doesn't lead the evening TV and radio news reports, and it's no longer the center of our concern even though we still hear the appeals for Hurricane Katrina relief. But for those people living on the Mississippi Gulf...

Create your own user feedback surveyBROOKLINE, Mass. (JTA) -- One of the intriguing questions marking this year's 350th anniversary of American Jewish history was whether women would be effectively integrated into the celebration's historical narratives.Not...

More than a few Jewish mouths curled into smiles at the recent news out of the University of Utah. Researchers there suggested that natural selection may have resulted in enhanced intellectual ability among Jews of Ashkenazic, or eastern European, background....

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Scopes Trial, the original trial of the century. Civility, not a survival-of-the-fittest demeanor, marked the proceedings. It's not a bad precedent for our U.S. Senators to follow in their deliberations over...