Jewish scholars love to write learned articles on what has been referred to as “The Jewish Problem.”  Scholars in Great Britain were once encouraged to write articles about the elephant, which was a favorite feature topic in the media there. One...

A self-deprecating poem once branded St. Louis as “first in shoes, first in booze and last in the American League.”  A lot has changed over the years. St. Louis has lost some iconic shoe companies and is no longer numero uno in footwear. Anheuser-Busch,...

One of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy, the separation of church and state, is facing new assaults on the public-school front.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2017 in the case out of Columbia, Mo., known as Trinity Lutheran that tax money...

President Donald Trump has had a dizzying week, even by his usual frenetic standards. Consider the following:• Attorney General  William Barr released his summary of the key findings of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, ...

Almost daily, depressing headlines report the sorry state of the news business and what its decline will mean for a public that needs to be more informed than ever.The triple threat of rapid growth of online media, prohibitive costs of publishing newspapers...

As home to an estimated 500,000 Jews, the third-largest Jewish population of any nation after Israel and the United States, France has always had a combination of a protective policy by officials of all mainstream parties and a vicious strain of anti-Semitism...

When historians look back to President Donald Trump’s performance last week as he announced a national emergency to build his border wall, few will judge it as inspirational. His stream of consciousness, ranging from Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize...

Almost completely ignored in commentary on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address were his passing references to what could mean significant developments in the Middle East. In his wide-ranging remarks, which included some very positive...

For more than two years, there has been an alarming spike in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric within far left factions of the Progressive movement. Such sentiment has placed great strains on the coalition of groups that make up the bulk of the Democratic...

President Donald Trump was on very shaky ground last Friday when he said he was “proud” to end a partial federal shutdown after 36 days of failure to resolve an impasse over his insistence on securing $5.7 billion for a border wall. Indeed, neither...