It’s safe to say that in the coming weeks, you’ll be reading a great deal about the new memoir, “Ally,” authored by Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, … more

My first reaction to the latest controversial Meretz-sponsored bill in the Israeli parliament was, mark of Cain. The original meaning of the phrase in Genesis is a sign of safety and protection … more

A University of Missouri (MU) fall 2015 honors tutorial that pro-Israel students felt would promote bigotry and misinformation on their college campus has been cancelled. … more

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to publicly rebuke former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren’s remarks that President Obama abandoned Israel by … more

A new study has found that many of the children who were educated in Nazi Germany retained, for the rest of their lives, the anti-Semitic attitudes they learned in school. What does that portend … more

Although Israel has been providing free medical treatment to Syrian refugees as well as Palestinians from the disputed territories and even from Gaza, the U.N. … more

Information is useful to the photographer photographing your event. Often the individuals actually doing the imagery are not given much information. Studios use a “job card” that does not … more

There is no more tragic figure in the entire Torah than Moshe Rabbeinu, our ultimate teacher. And there is no part of the story of his life in the Torah that is more confounding and mysterious … more

Bamidbar 21:5-8 contains what might be the quickest sin, punishment, retribution and repentant turnaround in all of the Torah. “The people spoke out against G-d and Moses, ‘Why did you … more

It’s been almost three years that I’ve been writing this column. At first it was just a recipe and a paragraph or two about the origins of the recipe or a humorous story to go with … more