Media pundits and missionaries are famous for taking quotations out of context. Before judging any statement you read or hear, it is important to know in what context it was expressed. Was the … more

Many articles are published on how to talk to children about anti-Semitism, but nobody has explained why doing so is so important. Some 88 percent of American Jewish adults surveyed in 2020 by … more

In the series “Letters to a German Friend,” written clandestinely during the Nazi occupation of France, the celebrated French writer and resistance figure Albert Camus conducted a … more

To make it into your fancy cup, specialty coffee undergoes a long, arduous and often continent-crossing journey during which the beans must be maintained at just the right levels of humidity and look … more

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt is Chief of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau and assistant rabbi of the Young Israel of Woodmere. He distributed this message before … more

Has the Biden administration found a way to spite its predecessor and aid the Palestinians without breaking the law? The State Department thinks it has, and so do its cheerleaders in the … more

Certainly, Israel’s struggle against the BDS movement has been a bitter PR battle, both angering and animating supporters of the Jewish state. After all, BDS has freely slandered Israel, … more

Like the tremendous labor pains that produced the birth of the modern-day Jewish state of Israel in 1948, this week’s Yom Ha’atzmaut is a particularly bittersweet one. There is a … more

Incoming media reports from Jordan indicate that the clash within the royal family has been resolved — or quashed. However, much uncertainty still shrouds the recent events in the Hashemite … more

On top of Jerusalem’s Mamilla Hotel you are stuck between two worlds. While you are in the chic confines of the Mamilla pedestrian mall that’s lined with luxury shops and cafés, … more