“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”— Arundhati Roy, “The God of Small Things” What’s the difference between Donald Trump using words to castigate a world community of a billion people, and Hands Up...

While the soft purr of the backchannel diplomatic engine rarely gets the media treatment of the alarming terror on Jerusalem streets, Israeli governmental officials continue working to build bridges in the region. Given the awful treatment accorded Israel...

Who are we as a nation? Current events are begging us to answer that question.Are we a nation that can embrace our traditional insistence on freedom of speech and expression, or are we going to succumb to those who would suppress it?Are we a nation that...

Many people in Paris are dead at the hands of inhuman terrorists.Let’s get some things straight.This is not the same as the events at Mizzou.This is not the same as Yale Halloween costumes.This is not the same as debating who’s responsible for the...

At the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America on Monday, Jewish philanthropist Les Wexner, CEO of L Brands Inc. and founder of the Limited clothing chain, talked about the responsibility of leadership and how it applies to us not...

President Barack Obama’s decision to send “fewer than 50” U.S. Special Operations Forces into Syria was both surprising and perplexing. For the past five years President Obama has adamantly insisted that the U.S. military involvement in the four-year...

Violence against the peaceful practice of religion harms us all.The desecration via arson of seven places of Christian worship in St. Louis and Jennings over a two-week period in October is not only a crime against the direct victims — members of the...

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” — Winston Churchill, radio broadcast, Oct. 1, 1939Despite the beginning of...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to display his hypocrisy as evidenced by his absurd speech to the United Nations General Assembly’s summit of heads of state and government last week.In his rambling address, Abbas suggested that...

What an interesting, vile and wholly hypocritical leader is Russian President Vladimir Putin.He has no problem with supporting the overthrow of Ukraine’s government and his own incursion into Crimea.But this week at the United Nations, he blasts the...

We’re used to the world becoming pawns in the game of American presidential politics. But when the chess moves result in direct and substantial damage to critical institutions, and particularly health and human services groups, it’s not so much fun...

If you’re looking for a High Holy Days metaphor about the Ferguson Commission report, we’d say that it got stuck somewhere between a sermon and a useful plan.That’s right. The huge set of calls to action, organized into almost four dozen recommendations...