Just a few scant weeks ago, in the aftermath of the Midterm elections, few would have predicted that the so-called "Lame Duck" session of Congress would have compiled such an impressive record of accomplishments.President Barack Obama described the Midterm...

Two comments made decades apart, one made public only recently and the other only recently made, one made in this country and the other in Israel, speak volumes about the perils of moral self-importance and delusion.The statement emanating from the United...

WALTHAM, Mass. - "Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?" Robin Marantz Henig asked in The New York Times Magazine ("The Post-Adolescent, Pre-Adult, Not-Quite-Decided Life Stage," Aug. 22). Lori Gottlieb urged reluctant single...

In both the short term and the long run, the decision by the Obama administration to drop its efforts to gain an agreement from the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for another 90-day freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank,...

As Israel investigates the alleged negligence and other causes responsible for the devastating fires that have killed several dozen prison guards traveling by bus, displaced thousands and destroyed property, one thing is for certain: The world community...

We all have our preferences for how our Jewish community should spend its money.  But if there isn't enough money to spend, how to spend it will be the least of our worries.That's why whatever your personal preferences, you should give to the Jewish...

There are somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Jews living in the metropolitan New York City area. Every one of them should plan on descending upon the United Nations next September.You see, September is when a committee of the United Nations has proposed...

NEW YORK (JTA) -- While the nation's attention is again focused on a foiled act of homegrown terrorism, this time in Oregon, the Jewish community has good reason to stay on high guard. A new FBI report on hate crimes shows that Jews are targeted more...

For the umpteenth time, the questionably-named "Mideast Peace Process" is at an impasse, despite the heroic efforts of the Obama Administration to keep the effort on life support. Veteran diplomats and other Middle East observers have all but given up...

Last week, Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman spoke at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival and spent 75 minutes with the Jewish Light's editorial group. During that wide-ranging discussion, he lamented the loss of civility and respectful...

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew- or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example,...

There's an inherent dichotomy in responding to terrorist activity. On the one hand, in the wake of an attack that results in senseless death and destruction we must go on with our lives without cowering in the corner. On the other, the seriousness of...