I wonder what his good friend Bibi is telling Donald Trump about the need to show strength in the face of unprovoked attack, about the...

Non use of muscles impairs them. Causes them to atrophy. Singers who don’t practice their chords every day risk losing vocal stren...

I admired John McCain, the maverick Republican U.S. senator, former prisoner of war who endured more than five years of capti...

I cannot denounce Donald Trump’s decision to punish Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for his alleged chemical weapons attack on rebels and...

Less than a week until the first presidential debate. The pressure must be excruciating on … Lester Holt of NBC News, the first moderator....

A recent article by Politico’s national editor Michael Hirsh argued that far from being a boorish yahoo with extreme un-American views Do...

With the first votes ready to be cast Monday in the Iowa caucuses, how much do we really know about the positions of the Republican candid...

How ironic! Budapest is serving as the transit point for Middle Eastern refugees fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya ...

Tuesday’s weather forecast included snow with temperatures hovering a few degrees below the freezing mark, colder if you calculated the wi...

(Editor’s Note: This is a realllllly long entry as I have chosen to reproduce two blogs from Rabbi Barry Konovitch who I knew as head of t...

I am, by nature, anti-war. A non belligerent. A pacifist. Yet, I am increasingly finding myself comfortable with the notion that some wars...

I made Gilda promise me that when the time came, and I’ll explain shortly why that time seems to be rapidly approaching, she’ll place me i...

Apropos Bashar al-Assad’s Oscar-worthy portrayal in the Charlie Rose interview of an aggrieved head of state wrongly accused of killing hi...

We didn’t know precisely what happened 49 years ago in the dark waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. We were told North Vietnamese gunships engag...

There’s an exegesis that major calamities suffered by the Jewish people occurred through the ages on the ninth day of the month of Av, kn...

Most Tuesday mornings from October through early June I participate in a Bible study class at our temple. We’re making our way th...

Reason to Celebrate: Sorry for the delay in reporting on my jubilee bar mitzvah day last Saturday. You can exhale now—all went well, especi...