“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”— From “The New Colossus” by Jewish-American...

“I believe — at a minimum — another 30 million new guns will be manufactured and sold before Barack Obama leaves office at the end of 2016.  I predict the numbers of firearms owned in the United States will easily top 400 million well before this...

3,000 years with no place to beAnd they want me to give up my milk and honeyDon’t you see, it’s not about the land or the seaNot the country but the dwelling of his majesty— lyrics from “Jerusalem,” by MatisyahuAmerican Jewish singer Matisyahu...

The Iran debate in the Jewish community is all over the board.Many American Jewish organizations are opposing the Iran deal, while some polls show a significant plurality of American Jews supporting it. Those polls are in contravention to those in which...

We can’t let the alleged criminal acts of a select few take away from what we’ve learned in the year after Michael Brown’s death. We just can’t.On Sunday, the nation watched as largely peaceful protests marking the anniversary of the initial events...

Acts of terrorism carried out by Israeli Jews have been relatively rare throughout the existence of the Jewish State. Their number, to be sure, has paled in comparison with the outsized number of such acts by Palestinian extremist groups such as Hamas,...

Mike Huckabee is both a cause and a symptom of the ugliest aspects of public discourse in America.He’s a cause because he spews vile rhetoric that ascribes evil to those with whom he disagrees, thus enabling the worst types of public discourse.He’s...

In the last several weeks alone, Chattanooga and Charleston happened,  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced, and James Holmes was found guilty in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater killings.As a society, we are so deeply pained and impassioned...

You may approve of the P5+1 deal with Iran or you may loathe it. But one thing’s for certain:There’s a new world order inherent in this deal, and it doesn’t start or end with the United Nations or its Security Council. And that’s a very good thing...

He just doesn’t get it. The “he” refers to David Azoulay, Israel’s Religious Services Minister.The “it” refers to Reform Judaism, which, outrageously, Azoulay does not acknowledge as legitimate Judaism.You heard that right: While Jewish leaders...

“Marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death.”— Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his majority opinion upholding same-sex marriageIn a victory for human rights as historic and dramatic as Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregated...

Insanity is a very tricky proposition.There’s insanity as defined by psychiatrists, insanity defined under the law, and the more generic definition of “extreme foolishness or irrationality” that we loosely use to describe behavior that makes us,...