President Obama just signed a 680 billion dollar "defense" appropriations bill. That does not include the cost of either war! But we're having an enormous debate about spending 90 billion dollars a year for health care (which will probably end up...

Chana writes about a gay Orthodox YU student with a blog. Here is my message for him and anyone else in a similar position: Just read about you on Chana's blog. My heart goes out to people like you who suffer unnecessarily. I grew up Orthodox and it...

Awesome: The picture painted by Russell and Martin is striking indeed. The last common ancestor of all life was not a free-living cell at all, but a porous rock riddled with bubbly iron-sulphur membranes that catalysed primordial biochemical reactions....

I thought it was an article from the Onion at first. And then... "What?!" The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it gave the prize to Obama for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy," his "vision of and work for a world without nuclear...

There were a lot of conditions for love and affection and continued membership, And they were serious, and they were ludicrous. It was, "You don't wear a yarmulke you can get out. You intermarry, we sit shiva for you. You eat non-kosher and our...