Reading Beirut Rules takes us back to the unhappy 1980s when American diplomats, spies, and the military would be assigned to the Middle East—a complex and dangerous region that very few of them understood—and became sitting ducks for increasingly sophisticated terrorists who were financed and directed by Iran.
For all its political sophistication and savviness, the Jewish community still takes great interest in the bottom line: How many Jews got in?
This is the new normal for many members of the Pittsburgh Jewish community: splitting their time between mourning the dead and protesting the hate that brought about the tragedy.
After the horrific attack this past Shabbat at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in which 11 of our brothers and sisters were brutally murdered, we can’t help but be shaken and concerned for the America we have come to know and love.
For the foreseeable future, for the rest of my lifetime, our synagogues, our day schools and our community centers will be less accessible, less open to world than in the past.
Four large and heavy commemorative bronze plaques wait in storage at the Praia airport in Cape Verde, an archipelago of ten tiny islands 300 miles off the coast of Senegal in West Africa.
New York’s 1st Congressional District hosts this election cycle’s most Jewish race, and one that provides valuable insight into a question on the minds of many Republicans.
People living in a weak democracy know too well that dangerous rhetoric leads to dangerous consequences.
I didn’t want to listen to Hagai El-Ad, director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, as he provided an official briefing to the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank last week.
In August, the CW announced that Australian actor Ruby Rose had been cast to play Batwoman in a new series based on the comic books. But some have criticized the casting choice on the basis that Rose is not Jewish.
Four months ago, our daughter gave birth to our first grandchild.
