The longstanding controversy over Israel, Zionism and Palestinian rights has resurfaced on an old battleground: New Jersey.And in the process, it is reviving another age-old question: Is Judaism a religion, an ethnicity or both?The issue, first reported...

Now that President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington, the question becomes what the response will be. Will the PLO take positive steps toward long-sought peace in the...

For several months, actions and statements regarding Israel by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party, have been criticized as not only unfair to the Jewish State but a thinly veiled effort to denigrate Britain’s Jewish community.Now,...

This is the day of the world’s beginning; now we recall creation’s first day.  On this day the fate of nations is in the balance — for war or peace, for famine or plenty ... life and death are in the balance.  Every mortal’s record is set...

Sometimes it seems like bad ideas never go away; they just retreat from the public consciousness, only to resurface again and again.That’s what happened last week, when the Post-Dispatch reported that Josh Hawley, Missouri’s attorney general and Republican...

A Legacy of Honor and Courage…Sen. John McCain knew he was dying of an aggressive form of brain cancer when he published his affecting memoir “The Restless Wave.”  With characteristic McCain modesty, he said he was grateful to have been “a bit...

At this month’s march in Washington called to mark the anniversary of last year’s deadly event in Charlottesville, Va., one of the counterprotesters — who greatly outnumbered a paltry crowd of marchers — carried a sign with this message:“I can’t...

August is usually associated with the “dog days,” when  time seems to stand still and the chaos and tumult of the other 11 months dies down. But the surface calm of the month often masks issues that can boil to the surface at a moment’s notice. In...

The White House has made good on its promise to reinstate even harsher sanctions against Iran in the aftermath of the confusing disconnect between  President Donald Trump’s own rhetoric and key members of his intelligence, foreign policy and security...

We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...

Outside of sending American troops into harm’s way, perhaps no decision by a president of the United States has more lasting potential effect than nominating a justice for the Supreme Court. When Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often has been the decisive...