Spread across my lap rests a tiny, white infant's dress embroidered with delicate, pale-pink flowers. That dress, now 63 years old, was a present sent to me from 2nd Lt. Marcus "Mutt" Kruke when he was stationed in London in May of 1944. Mutt was my father's...

Jewish foundations are growing by leaps and bounds, giving away billions of dollars, and supporting practically every cause and organization you can imagine. This is good news, unless of course you are in the camp that believes Jews and the foundations...

The seemingly relentless campaign against the legitimacy of the State of Israel as exemplified by the harshly anti-Israel books Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter and The Israel Lobby by Professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago...

Almost without exception, whenever there is a faintly hopeful development in the Middle East or neighboring regions, it is met with extreme violence carried out by terrorist extremists determined to derail it. Last Thursday, 140 people were killed in...

Within the Jewish community, outreach has been a buzzword for quite a while. The term initially meant outreach to the intermarried, as first suggested by Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the late former President of the Union for American Hebrew Congregations....

Once again the academic community in Great Britain is exhibiting an alarming and increasing hostility towards Israel and the world Jewish community. The JTA reports that Holocaust denier David Irving has been invited to speak to the Oxford Debating Society,...

Just two weeks ago, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted out a resolution declaring the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915-1917 in the Turkish Ottoman Empire to be a "genocide." The resolution has been long sought by the Armenian-American...

Jewish day schools have much to celebrate. While in 1982 enrollment in day schools was 110,000, the latest figures put current enrollment at nearly double that. In May 2007, in collaboration with a team from Brandeis University's Cohen Center for Modern...

After months of debate, negotiation and compromise, Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress sent to President Bush a bipartisan bill that would reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program. That SCHIP measure would have provided much-needed...

Now that the battle between President Bush and Democrat leaders in Congress over a federal children's health program has heated up, it is important that Jewish leaders -- even those who affiliate with a different political party than the president --...

With the start of a new year, rabbis are re-envisioning their goals and actions both locally and beyond. In his JTA article based on STAR's national Rabbinic Leadership Survey: Vision 5768, writer Ben Harris suggests that rabbis are pessimistic about...

Sometimes when things cannot seem to get any worse, they suddenly and unexpectedly get better. About 18 monts ago, the radical regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il successfully tested a crude atomic weapon, confirming the worst fears of the international...