Edwin Black, a man on the frontlines of the battle against the BDS movement, last week returned to Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence for the third year in a row. Two years ago, Black’s Rambam talk … more

Normally, with baseball season starting yesterday, I would be writing about my beloved team, the Atlanta Braves. In the past, when the season started, I was proud, excited and psyched to cheer them … more

The names of our Jewish holidays are almost always listed and used in the Hebrew language, even those that have English equivalents. That is all holidays, except one, Pesach, which more often than … more

Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence sent a sizeable delegation to the AIPAC Public Policy Conference in Washington last week. more

Included in the New York State budget for the coming fiscal year, finalized on Friday in Albany, were allocations of $72.5 million in additional funding for nonpublic schools across the … more

“Every week there is an attack at the U.N. against Israel,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told me at the recent American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) … more

Debate on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is often heard loudest from Jews in America and the rest of the Diaspora,rather than focusing on what leaders in the movement’s … more

The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally received a modicum of justice last week, when a United Nations court in The Hague sentenced him to 40 years in prison for his monstrous war … more

On a late-Shabbat walk in Manhattan last week, I found myself weaving through a large, loud group of people. It turns out it was a pro-Trump rally. One of the people standing around stopped me, … more

Chicken soup is known as the “Jewish penicillin,” but there’s much more to the deep connection between the Jewish experience and healing, argues a new exhibit. “Medicine … more