The Jewish Federation of St. Louis that I see today is a wonderful institution. There are many people, from all walks of life, who have contributed greatly to this enterprise since its founding in 1901. On behalf of the many recipients who benefit from...

It is not enough that half of our community is backing away from Central Reform Congregation: They should be supporting them. For almost 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has tried to intimidate Jews. Enough is enough. The Gospels were meant to convert,...

American, Israeli and Palestinian officials all have downplayed their expectations for the Middle East Peace Summit scheduled for this week in Annapolis, Md. A few hopeful observers think the summit might -- at least -- lead to progress in the two-state...

The most accurate metaphor for the ever-changing events in the volatile region of the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent is that they are as unsteady as the shifting sands in the deserts of those regions. The secular year 2007 marks the 60th anniversary...

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...