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Science and math. Science and math. President Barack Obama’s new mantra is science and math. If only America’s students focused on science and math,…

Presenting directly after me at a recent conference in Malaga, Spain, was legendary Apple Macintosh promoter Guy Kawasaki, who said something…

“The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade… are hereby expelled from the department within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this…

It is impossible, George W. Bush suggests, to reach “definitive conclusions” about any presidency until decades after the incumbent has left the…

For Jews in America,” Eli Evans, noted historian of Southern Jewry, begins his essay reprinted in this volume, “the Civil War was a watershed that…

FOR YEARS I TRIED TO FIGURE out my son. This is a kid who once warned me, “Don’t ask me about my day.” I remember vividly what he was wearing – a…

WASHINGTON - Chances are good that the power of the federal government, squarely in the hands of Democrats the past two years, is about to become…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke strongly about Israel's position on the peace process Wednesday, during a Knesset session commemorating the…

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud) spoke at a gathering of the Knesset on Wednesday to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the assassination of…

On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the…

AMONG THE SORTS OF books I usually avoid are thrillers (too addictive), science fiction (bad science, bad fiction) and literary criticism…

Bill T. Jones Dance CompanySerenade/The PropositionTAPAC, June 1 Very few dance-makers use text as a prominent element; fewer use it to convey…

It seems there is not enough time to take in all of the interesting ideas percolating in the mind of choreographer Bill T. Jones. No matter which…

The most common nervous reaction among a certain segment of Israel’s left is the refrain that Israel is always threatened by undemocratic forces from…

BUDAPEST – We started getting the concerned SMS messages on Friday from family and friends wondering if we were “under the cloud.” An immense plume…

To paraphrase Sir Thomas Morley, “Now is the month of Maying when the Festival is aplaying! Fa la la la la!” It’s the Israel Festival, of course,…

The advent of Pessah and Easter, which always fall around the same time, beckons a deeper discussion about one of the principle differences between…

‘Unwise’ constructionSir, – David Metzger writes, “Insisting on continuing new construction of settlements at a time when the US is trying to broker…

‘Passover has become a universal parable whose symbolism has meaning for all people who strive toward freedom and a new life,” Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum…

February is the month to celebrate American presidents. There is a federal “Presidents Day” holiday each year to mark the birthdays of George…