Long after Amazon has settled into its new Virginia headquarters, people will still be shaking their heads at the spectacle of America’s most valuable company leaving New York City in…
By: Eli Verschleiser We are in the process of a rigorous national debate on immigration in this country, and that is a positive, healthy process. With notable exceptions in some…
The Middle East is a mess all right, but Trumpification may not be such a bad idea . Germany’s foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, recently spoke out against what he called…
As the world recoils from yet another atrocity, offering platitudes of “standing with Manchester” while actually doing very little to challenge terrorism, the City University of New York’s School of…
Our parents and grandparents used to regale us with tales of trudging miles and miles to school in a blinding blizzard, wind whipping at their faces, no such thing as…
Our country seems more sharply divided today than it has been for generations. With a new president in the White House, only 14 percent of Democrats approve of his performance,…
What is it about Brooklyn College that makes it such a hotbed of anti-Zionism and flashpoint in the political war against Israel? This “middle-class Ivy League” school in Midwood, where…
There is no shortage of reminders these days about how easily peace can turn into violence. Protests turn into disturbances very easily — all too often resulting in senseless crime…
It’s a timeless image. A young Israeli literally extending his hand to Islam, only to be rebuffed. The image was seen around the world, and with the help of Israel…
I have written before about the tendency in some circles to take a tragic event or series of events and try to show a trend that reflects poorly on religious…