Let’s get this out of the way right at the outset: Roger Waters is pompous and detestable.The former Pink Floyd member is a radical antagonist of Israel and, according to many, including Abraham Foxman, longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, a...

Much dust was stirred last Friday when Brandon Dixon, of the cast of the hit Broadway show “Hamilton,” addressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was in the audience, at the end of the play. “We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed...

We congratulate President-elect Donald J. Trump and hope for the adoption by him and Congress of policies, programs and successes that benefit all Americans.Some might say there should be a honeymoon period of non-judgment after a presidential election....

For decades the conventional wisdom was that there was an almost monolithic “Jewish vote,” representing all streams of Judaism as well as secular and non-observant Jews. Politicians of both major parties would court the Jewish vote by citing support...

Is the debate going on this week in the Knesset about free speech or money? If you’re Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or one of his political allies, it’s the latter. On the other hand, if you’re Kulanu head Moshe Kahlon, the former characterization...

If you think more, better and educated dialogue is critical to young people’s understanding and concern about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then you may be uneasy about a couple aspects of a recent Brandeis University study.The report on the study,...

Is it possible that the Jewish Mexican ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was fired from his post for NOT being anti-Semitic?It’s not only possible, but entirely likely. In a resolution adopted...

Normally, writing an editorial on a measure and not taking a position is considered a copout. But in the case of Missouri Amendment 3 on the November ballot, we think that how you vote on it really depends on what you think. This is about you-as-legislator,...

In 1923:The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) was formed.The failed “Beer Hall Putsch” resulted in prison time for Adolf Hitler, who dictated “Mein Kampf” to Rudolf Hess while serving his sentence. Time Magazine launched.Cecil B DeMille’s...

It now appears that gun possession is protected more stringently than voting in Missouri.That may be a slight exaggeration, but not much. The Legislature last week overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s vetoes of 13 bills, including one allowing concealed weapon...

Senator Lindsey Graham may or may not change his mind in the coming days, but it won’t much matter. The Republican legislator from South Carolina has objected to the deal recently reached by the administrations of U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli...

“Anti Semitism is a disease that is beyond politics.” —Comment on the Daily Gazette (student newspaper of Swarthmore College) website, in response to William Meyer’s article, “A Response to Yesterday’s Anti-Semitic Hate Crime from a ‘Whiny...