Mufasa: Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance. As king, you need to understand that balance and respect all the creatures, from the crawling ant to the leaping antelope. Simba: But dad, don’t we eat the antelope? Mufasa: Yes, Simba,...

Let’s play the old “Sesame Street” game, “One of these things is not like the other.” Ready? Here goes:E.E. Cummings. Lindsay Graham. Walt Disney. Charles Lindbergh. Rand Paul.Toughie, yes? Well, not so much for students of history.The correct...

Here’s the first thing you need to know about “The Innocence of Muslims,” the film that has prompted murder, riots and unrest by and amongst Muslims in myriad nations: It is without question one of the most sophomoric, poorly-made, and deliberately...

How much is to be made of the dustup last week over the Democratic platform flipflop over the exclusion, and then inclusion, of declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? It really depends on who’s talking and who’s listening. The issue was raised...

The Iran issue is omnipresent both in the Jewish State and the American Jewish community. The debate rages on in the news, in communities, in homes. If there’s no more diplomatic progress, should Israel attack Iran unilaterally, and when? Should the...

All the progress that America and Israel have achieved in nurturing gender equality is now in severe peril, thanks to reactionary forces that threaten to drive us back toward the Dark Ages. In Israel, it’s a cowardly fear of ultra-Orthodox Jews who...

Some view Arab Spring as a gateway toward democratic leadership in a number of Middle East nations. Others are less optimistic, concerned that Islamist fundamentalists will ascend to governance and cause more seismic shifts that will inure to Israel’s...

In the Hebrew Bible, God tells us, “Behold, I have set before you good and evil, life and death,” and adds, “therefore, choose life!”  Within the past 10 days, our nation and the world have witnessed a cascade of horrific episodes in which evil...

An aphorism as ancient as the Middle East itself, the borrowed title of this editorial applies to the dramatic lesson of the horrific attack by Islamic extremists on Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai. This week saw the reports of a brutal attack...

Missouri’s Catholic bishops, champions of Amendment 2 (set for Tuesday’s ballot in Missouri) say the measure is needed because religious values are becoming “marginalized in society.”We don’t mean to be disrespectful to those bishops or other...

It’s been a terrible week for civilized society. The heinous bombing of Israeli citizens traveling in Bulgaria, coupled with the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., demonstrate how low human beings can stoop, when acting out of hate, fear, despair and psychosis.The...