Reports that the U.S. is indirectly negotiating with Hizballah suggest that the Obama administration is abetting Iran’s plans for regional hegemony.

When Israel’s critics complain about being suppressed on college campuses, they complain into microphones provided by America’s most prestigious academic institutions.

The lexical fusion of “Thanksgiving” and “Hanukkah” might be artificial, but the invention of portmanteau words is an old American tradition.

Is the interim agreement between the P5+1 countries and Iran binding on any party? It wouldn’t appear so.

Twice during the American Revolutionary War, Jews combined stories of the Maccabees’ defeat of the Greeks with thanks for their nascent country’s victories against the British.

For many American Jews, observance of Thanksgiving is more than merely permissible; it has evolved into something quasi-sacred. (2012)

A 1998 act committing the United States to the promotion of religious freedom abroad might have been effective had it been properly implemented—but it hasn’t been.

On Thanksgiving 1789, Rabbi Gershom Mendes Seixas called upon Jews to thank God for the gift of life in a country “where no exception is. . .

The Obama administration justifies an easing of Iran sanctions on the grounds that they can be tightened again if Tehran violates its side of the. . .

America’s constitutional tradition of religious neutrality is intended not to bar religion from influencing the state but to prevent the state from corrupting religion.

The disagreement over Iran’s nuclear program is already one of the biggest U.S.-Israel blowups ever—and it could get worse before it gets better.

George W. Bush misstepped in agreeing to address a group dedicated to converting American Jews to Christianity. But the real danger to American Jewish. . .

In Canada’s 2011 elections, Jewish Canadians deserted the center-left Liberal party in favor of Stephen Harper’s pro-Israel Conservative party. Could a similar shift occur in the. . .

Morocco has become the latest American ally in the Middle East to be jettisoned by the White House in favor of a hostile regional rival.