If you’ve ever wanted to be the editor of a newspaper, here’s an exercise to show you what it’s like. Let’s say you are trying to figure out the best display for the two top stories of the day. In one, your state’s chief executive lays out...

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. That’s sound advice for someone whose words and deeds are injurious to himself or others — someone like President Donald Trump in the aftermath of his description of Haiti and...

Iran, a complicated nation of 82 million, is in the midst of yet another round of street protests — the most widespread demonstrations targeted against the ruling theocratic regime since the so-called “Green Revolution” in 2009.  Those protests...

In the spirit of the ancient Roman god Janus, whose two faces allowed him to look both forward and back, we use this first editorial of 2018 to take one more measure of top people and events of last year and present our hopes for how a turbulent time...

As the year drew to a close, two news events once again reinforced Israel’s central position in U.S. foreign policy and the need to address tough questions in 2018.First came the release of President Donald Trump’s 68-page foreign policy strategy...

At first, it appeared that the mayors of two cities holy to Christians the world over would curtail their annual Christmas celebrations to protest the U.S. move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.Luckily for those who make the annual pilgrimage...

While justices on the U.S. Supreme Court ponder whether a Colorado baker has the right to refuse to create a cake for a same-sex wedding, we thought we would present our view by altering one key section of the argument.For those unfamiliar with the saga,...

No one should be surprised that President Donald Trump followed through on his campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel. What remains to be seen is whether the move jump starts efforts toward a two-state solution in...

If GlobalSTL—an initiative of the nonprofit group BioSTL—succeeds in its goal to turn St. Louis into a Midwestern outpost of Silicon Valley, Israeli entrepreneurs will play a key role.As detailed by Eric Berger in last week’s Jewish Light, St. Louis...

The 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ approval of its partition plan for Palestine went by last week with little notice. And the related issues that have been simmering in Israel for decades remain.If the U.N. General Assembly had not approved...

When Eric Greitens started his political career by winning the race for Missouri governor last fall, he told voters he wanted to do things differently in Jefferson City. But his clumsy, unsuccessful attempts to fire the state’s education commissioner...

The list of men in the worlds of entertainment and politics who have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct grows almost daily. So do the strange alliances that such allegations create. But the odd makeup of the groups of supporters and detractors...