Washington correspondent for more than 35 years and has worked for such outlets as Newhouse News Service, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, NJ Advance Media and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A ...

As the race for NY Attorney General entered its final days ahead of the November elections, the central debate shifted from ...

Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor of New York rests on a straightforward argument: The state has become too expensive, too dangerous, and too out of touch with common-sense values. As Nassau ...

Sarai’s entrance into Egypt is marked by silence. She is taken into Pharaoh’s house, and the Torah does not record a single word from her on the matter. That silence is not incidental. It is the Torah ...

There is no Israeli consent to these plans, and no permits were provided for these projects. Most of the projects are slated for areas under full Israeli control. It is described as “a well-oiled ...

Despite its apparent antiquity and worldwide familiarity, the custom of placing written prayers into the crevices of the Western Wall is neither biblical nor talmudic in origin. Rather, it is a ...

The rapid rise of the Democratic Socialists of America is profoundly troubling for American Jews. Before 2016, the organization had roughly 6,000 members; today it claims well over 100,000 – and is ...

What does it mean to be a bar mitzvah? How does one keep up the momentum long after reaching the age of 13? What are a girl’s obligations when she becomes a bat mitzvah? These questions and more are ...

Three years ago, illustrator and portrait artist Dena Ackerman was sorting through a pile of current and old passports in her Beit Shemesh home when an expired American passport caught her eye. “I ...

I'm beginning this week’s column on Motza’ei Shabbat/Chag here in Israel. As I write these words, it is still Sh’mini Atzeret in the States, with Simchat Torah still to come. For us, it is already ...

In the coming week, we will observe the fast of the 17 th of Tammuz, and with it the beginning of the three-week period of mourning that precedes the 9 th of Av. In this week’s parsha, we learn about ...

As the Romantic movement reached its crescendo across Europe in the early nineteenth century, few collaborations seemed as unlikely – and as fruitful – as that between Lord Byron, the scion of English ...