This week marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the Six-Day War, the seismic event that has shaped the subsequent history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The war’s immediate...
The rise to power of Islamists in Egypt skewers myths about peace. As Egyptian voters recently went to the polls in what was their first-ever opportunity...
The question returns every presidential election year: is the Jewish vote up for grabs? For longer than anyone can remember most American Jews have supported Democratic...
Fewer (much fewer) than 1% of the Arab prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons are administrative detainees. Almost all were charged, tried and convicted for the most...
The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a number of...
Slurs against Jews and blacks – the source is the same kind of bigotry, but the results are vastly different. And how about anti-Semitic African-Americans? There’s...
The issue of how to deal with the threat of Iran manufacturing a nuclear bomb is a matter affecting Israel’s very existence and, therefore, a first...
We have recently been subjected to a variety of prominent Israelis publicly besmirching their country in order to promote their personal agendas or compensate for their...
The great Jewish historian, Salo W. Baron, famously criticized the “lachrymose” conception of Jewish history, by which he meant the reduction of the Jewish experience to...
Since the first wave of uprisings in Syria, and with the increasingly violent crackdown strategy of President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey has significantly shifted its position toward...
The nearly 20-year-old peace process between Israel and the Arabs has become a self-sustaining industry, producing lucrative incomes and prestigious accolades for people who have accomplished...
Praise for Mike Wallace as a probing investigative reporter saturated news media immediately after his death April 7 at age 93. Virtually all tributes omitted the...
Undeterred by the superstitions associated with Friday the thirteenth, negotiators are slated to meet in Istanbul on April 13 for new talks on resolving the threat...
A recent survey by the Public Religion Research of Jewish Voters, sent campaign Obama all over the place, spinning the poll results that show the President...
Following its merger with Newsweek, The Daily Beast may be on its way to becoming something of an American news media institution. It was therefore a...
The blood libel–a false accusation that Jews murder non-Jewish children to use their blood for religious purposes [Just by way of keeping things timely, one popular...
