A couple of days ago, I came back from India by way of Amman, Jordan, and took a cab to cross the border at the Allenby border crossing.  I was held up for two hours at the border because of large crowds.  Unbeknownst to me, it was a few days before...

Last week a woman who likes to pray wearing a tallit (prayer shawl) -- behavior which would be considered quite normal for the majority of the Jews in the world, who are not Orthodox -- was arrested for wearing her tallit at the Western Wall, the...

Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said that Israel no longer desires a Middle East peace deal. (See J Post article) Thomas Friedman, the normally very astute NY Time columnist, says that Israel and the Palestinians do not seem so...

I had a first time experience today.  I got kicked out of a church for wearing a kippah (yarmulke). I have visited a lot of churches and Christian holy sites since I started wearing a kippah full-time.  I have been to churches in Canada, in Ohio,...

The J Street website proclaims "J Street is the political arm of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement." I had the opportunity to meet Jeremy Ben-Ami, the Executive Director of J Street at a Rabbis for Human Rights board meeting last year.  I was...