What does  "Jewish community" mean to you?  The question is at the heart of both a recent story in the Jewish Daily Forward about the dismissal of a longtime Jewish newspaper executive in Washington D.C., and  an exciting new Jewish Light venture announced...

Pope Benedict XVI, highly respected for his careful scholarship and keen intellect, has made a major contribution to positive Roman Catholic-Jewish relations with the forthcoming publication of his new book "Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance...

It's risky to predict how the various revolutions in the disparate nations of the Middle East and North Africa will play out. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, some of the successor...

Childhood is a terrible thing to waste. But Jane Cunningham would beg to differ.The state senator from Chesterfield has proposed a bill to remove restrictions on child labor, thus setting Missouri back oh, about nine decades. In the meantime, Cunningham...

Egypt's going one way while the United States is at risk of going the other.There's much debate about how much the Internet and social networking were responsible for the uprising and revolution in Egypt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.  Many who...

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) is an up-and-comer in the Republican Party leadership. He is very intelligent, a financial hawk, and purports to have a handle on budget matters (we say "purports" because there are diverging perspectives on the true depth...

The majority of American Jews have some sort of affinity for both Israel and democracy. What's happening currently in Egypt is likely to tear those dual values asunder.With the ferocious uprising in Egypt, following indirectly from a single man setting...

We envision the following job posting in national publications:"Wanted: An experienced nonprofit, corporate or other professional needed to serve as CEO of a community-wide organization with a $10M operating budget, that oversees a $100M+ endowment, interacts...

At the very time of an unusual number of coincidental major changes even for the volatile Middle East, Israel's landscape has also experienced a major earthquake with this week's surprise announcement by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that he has...

Sarah Palin did not shoot Rep. Gabriella Giffords. Neither did Glenn Beck. Or Rush Limbaugh. Or even Giffords' opponent in the 2010 campaign, Jesse Kelly. Giffords was shot by a mentally unstable terrorist, who after attempting to assassinate Giffords,...

Since the notorious NGO Forum of the 2001 Durban conference, nongovernmental organizations have implemented a coordinated strategy against Israel -- isolation and demonization in the international arena. Influential Israeli and Palestinian NGOs are very...

Rewriting Mark Twain is not good for the digestive system.The effort by Auburn University Professor Alan Gribben in editing the “Advertures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” to change the “n” word to “slave” has prompted all sorts...