With memories still fresh of a cemetery desecration here  and vicious taunts from marchers in Charlottesville, the latest statistics from the Anti-Defamation League on anti-Semitic incidents should come as no surprise. But that doesn’t make them any...

While the search continues for the right formula to implement a two-state solution for Israel, valuable lessons and caveats can be found in the situation in Sudan, to the south of the Jewish State.As noted last week in a Wall Street Journal article by...

Buried beneath other news developments in recent days — from sexual harassment in Hollywood to protesting football players to the alleged disrespect shown to the mother of a fallen soldier — is a piece of good news that deserves more attention. Raqqa,...

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that the Missouri could provide funds to a church in Columbia to make its playground safer, winds of change began to blow around the meaning of the First Amendment.Then came a series of storms that devastated...

Over the past decade, several reconciliation deals between Fatah, the dominant faction in the Palestinian Authority under the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Hamas, the militant offshoot of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, have been announced with...

With another date for action approaching, President Donald Trump has made clear he will refuse to certify that Iran is in compliance with the controversial nuclear arms deal reached under Barack Obama in 2015.That refusal would pass the issue along to...

With hurricanes and earthquakes, protest marches and the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas dominating the headlines, four recent news developments affecting Israel and Jews worldwide have attracted little notice. But as the new year 5778 begins, they...

In his blistering debut speech at last week’s opening of the United Nations General Assembly, any effort by President Donald Trump to appear diplomatic disappeared when he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea over its possible use of atomic...

Broken windows, cancelled concerts, police chants and other headline-grabbing developments in protests after a judge’s high-profile verdict have overshadowed attempts to consider the vital issues that the case raises.When Judge Timothy Wilson exonerated...

The year just ending certainly presented its share of challenges. From the unsettling changes brought by the election of President Donald Trump, to the desecration of the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, to the neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville,...

Now that President Donald Trump has threatened to cruelly upend the lives of 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children, it’s up to Congress to make sure their dreams to stay in this country become reality.We say that Trump...

Floodwaters are receding in Texas and Louisiana after rain and flooding of biblical proportions, but the depth of the need for help in the wake of Hurricane Harvey is still becoming clear.In the space of just a few days, the world watched in awe as nature...