With Abdul El-Sayed clinching the Democratic Party nomination in the Michigan U.S. Senate race last week, the Jewish community’s historical loyalty to the Democratic Party will be put to...
As the American Jewish community continues to reel from the near massacre of Jewish preschool children last week at Temple Israel, senators will hold a confirmation hearing today for...
Forty-three years ago, “A Nation at Risk,” a bipartisan federal report commissioned under President Reagan, warned that declining academic standards and weak student outcomes were putting America’s economic future...
The tragic terrorist attack on a Chanukah celebration on Bondi Beach happened on the other side of the world, but it could have happened here. In the United States, a nation...
Long before Jews were overrepresented in universities, both as students and faculty, it was the Jews who established education as an imperative. “You shall teach them diligently to your...
Thursday morning after the end of the Sukkot holiday, Rabbi Moshe Hauer and I were scheduled to meet at the White House with senior officials to discuss priority issues...
Twenty-five years ago today, Aug. 7, 2000, presidential nominee Al Gore announced Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate on the Democratic ticket. Lieberman made history as the first...
The American Jewish community is under attack, but Congress is acting like business as usual. In just the past three weeks, two Israeli Embassy employees were murdered in the...
As Jews worldwide celebrate Jerusalem Day, you will hear tales about the miraculous reunification of Jerusalem and joyful retellings of the miracle of the Six Day War in which Israel’s...
For young Jewish college students, Joe Lieberman is, at best, a historical curiosity. In the pantheon of political movers and shakers, the religiously observant former senator from Connecticut, who...
