The Verizon guy’s mantra is of course intended to demonstrate the breadth of the company’s phone reception. But if you think of the hordes that always accompany him on his missions as hard-core ideologues, the commercials start to look like metaphors...

Do you expect your news sources (Jewish or otherwise) to have integrity? It seems like a simple question, doesn't it? If news outlets represent our source of facts on the happenings of individuals and institutions, then we would like to think that they...

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings - And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings." -- Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter, from Through...

Judging by his comments last week, United States Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) apparently thinks liberalism is a movement that spews hatred of God. He could not be farther from historical accuracy, and hurling these statements less than a fortnight before our...

"Delta is ready when you are," is a longtime slogan for the U.S.-based airline, but recent press reports that the carrier has caved in to obnoxious anti-Israel and anti-Jewish policies of Saudi Arabia suggest, at first glance that a more apt slogan might...

Art is life. Art isn't life.It's life because it's so often from here-and-now reality that artists derive their inspiration. The water lilies Monet obsessed upon were most definitely real. Shakespeare and Moliere poked much fun at the social niceties...

The majority Republican party in the Missouri General Assembly has caused passage of Senate Bill 3. which would require Missouri voters to present a non-expired government-issued photo ID in order to vote in elections. The bill now heads to the desk of...

At first, reactions to the San Francisco ballot initiative to outlaw circumcision of boys under the age of 18 seemed to fall into the "Are you serious?" category. But sometimes, truth is in fact stranger than fiction, and yes, a small band of thoughtless...

It's a nasty state of affairs when national and world leaders come plummeting down due to criminal activity, and depending on our political leanings, it can be personally disappointing as well. We saw, for instance, former Israeli President Moshe Katsav...

United States Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Minn.), whose proposal for Medicare could have a major adverse effect on seniors, is both a Catholic adherent of Christian teachings and a devotee of the polemicist Ayn Rand, whose literature preached self over self-sacrifice....

They said Bibi was different this time, that he had changed, grown, matured. They said he better understood the world stage, his place in history. The truth? We're not so sure. We don't in any way doubt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intentions,...

In Texas Hold ‘Em parlance, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gone all in. In his Monday opinion piece in the New York Times, Abbas has said to the world that the future of Israel doesn't matter one iota. In essence, he's proven that...