It's not common for citizens of Israel, a haven of democracy in a historically repressive region, to feel simpatico with those in surrounding nations. Yet as matters of gender equality move to the media forefront across the Middle East in the aftermath...

The Jewish population of St. Louis, if assumed to be in the 50-60,000 range, falls well below that of Montreal, listed as having the 24th largest core Jewish population of world cities.  Yet if the Gateway City and environs were a freestanding country,...

During this season of Hanukkah, it is particularly sad to see extremely disturbing acts of violence in the modern Jewish State of Israel by Jews against fellow Jews. While the holiday celebrates the victory of Maccabeans against their enemies, the historic...

Reigning National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun reportedly failed a drug test for banned substances taken during the 2011 playoffs (See p. 7A).  It looks bad for the Hebrew Hammer - despite his protestations of innocence, 13 players have appealed...

Not a moment too soon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the plug on one of most pathetically inept marketing campaigns since New Coke or the Edsel.  The ads, according to JTA's Uriel Heilman, were produced by Israel's Ministry of Immigrant...

Just when it seems that the Palestinian people cannot not be more ill-served by its so-called "official leadership," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal have again proved their ineptitude. The question is, are...

The news is gloomy these days, for sure, which makes it even harder to look for those morsels that ought comprise our Thanksgiving-season gratitude.Domestically, political types seem more desirous of destroying their opponents than creating governing...

The most recent report by the United Nations-affiliated International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed the worst fears of Israel and most of the Arab states in the already volatile Middle East: Iran is making continued and substantial progress toward...

Nov. 6-12 is Media Literacy Week, during which we are urged to focus on how we view, process and react to news and information.  Groups like the local Gateway Media Literacy Partners (www.gmlpstl.org) promote the importance of critical reading skills...

For years, during the largely secularized holiday of Halloween, kids would take part in the "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" drive, which is still viable in many American cities-and fully deserves the support of the community. UNICEF is the United Nations...

If you reflect on the Brothers Grimm in assessing the strange case of Gilad Shalit, you're not far off. Just think of Gilad Shalit as Snow White and Hamas as the evil Queen whose mirror reveals the ugly truth about its master, and you'll fairly well understand...

Round four of the boxing match that is the dawning of the Internet Political Era has begun, and the battle appears to be heating up quite nicely.Anyone who pretends to have an in on the outcome, however, is sorely mistaken.No, round one was not Al Gore...