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From The Jerusalem Blueprint

When we first moved to New York City in the late ’90’s, my friends and I, being young, single, and low salaried, decided it wasn’t too big a sin to “crash” Yom Kippur services....

Tonight the world is rocked by the news that Islamist militants attacked and killed 12 and injured many more individuals at a satirical magazine in Paris. A few initial thoughts on this.

“I may disagree with what you say, but...

Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi (pictured above) contacted me by phone last week to report that political moderates, liberals and secularists in Iraq are increasingly threatened as the United States spurns them in favor of...

For one religious single woman, unmarried motherhood is a gift.

Divorced and childless at 23, each year for the next decade on Rosh HaShanah, Julie Yusupov would walk to her synagogue and, in hopes of one day becoming a mother, say a...

Fighting off guilt at the High Holidays.

When Lee Bernstein, a Manhattan dentist, was in his late 30’s, he bought an engagement ring for his 26-year-old girlfriend, who had just graduated from dental school. Next he took it and...

In Jewish Week interview, ex-Harvard Law professor charges that former president, South African archbishop ‘encourage’ Hamas’ ‘dead-baby’ strategy.

In his new book, “Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War...

Heather Robinson’s appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” to discuss her Huffington Post account of flight attendant Steven Slater’s meltdown aboard a Jet Blue flight from Pittsburgh to New York’s JFK airport. Mr. Slater’s...

Host Kevin Price and Guest Heather Robinson discuss “A Glimmer of Hope in Iraq” on this segment of the Price of Business.

I had the good fortune to interview Joan Rivers three times, and to hang out with her once (as press, and then kinda informally). The first time, I had to fight for the interview, and the third (and only in-person) time, I had to fight Joan...

From The Jewish Week

Mithal al Alusi, honored by AJC for moral courage, says U.S. should unite region against terrorism.

Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al Alusi, whose support for Israel earned him the American Jewish...