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by Rabbi Avi Shafran

In the Netherlands emotional pain is sufficient legal justification to assist in one's suicide. What is happening to the immeasurable value in human life?

by Rabbi Berel Wein

The Jews always honored their heroes, biblical or otherwise, without forgetting that they were human beings and subject to mistakes and failures.

by Lawrence Kelemen

Online dangers and practical responses.

by Emuna Braverman

Why do we take things so personally?

by Yaffa Ganz

The present has become an elaborate excuse to take a picture for the future.

Practical ideas on how to help those who have suffered loss.

by Jeff Jacoby

There will be no justice for Iraq's former ruler.

by Daniel Pipes

Jawad Amir Sayyid's story makes a powerful symbolic counterpoint to Saddam Hussein's capture.

by Emuna Braverman

"How are you?" "I'll give you a call!" and other words we use to create the illusion of caring.

by Leah Abramowitz

Pulled between responsibilities towards one's children and one's aging parents, "the sandwich generation" have their own dilemmas.

When it comes to finding the negative qualities in others, our imagination becomes a veritable fountain of ideas. But finding the good in others takes so much thought and effort.

by Diane Faber Veitzer

If having possessions means living in fear and loss, we are not richer for them.

A rescue worker looks back to that fateful day.

by Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein

Making light out of a very dark night.

by Dr. Lisa Aiken, Ph.D.

Although domestic abuse is totally abhorrent to Judaism, the Jewish community is not completely immune to it.

by Richard Rabkin

I have decided to go without television for an entire week. And believe me, this is a big deal.

by Rabbi Shraga Simmons and Rebbetzin Feige Twerski

Where's the beef? Examining the pros and cons.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The concept of "bar mitzvah" has drifted incredibly far from its true meaning in these materialistic times.

by John Loftus

Pollard's life sentence is based on a humongous Washington whopper of a lie.

by David Luchins

Remembering a great friend of the Jewish people.

by Isi Leibler

The civilized world would be better off were the United Nations in its present form to disappear.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

The opposite of Universalism is community, not sectarianism.

by Charles Krauthammer

Will the civilized world disarm the barbarians who could cause the ultimate destruction?

by Am Echad Resources

A former athlete insists that the most wonderful thing that ever happened to him was the swimming accident that left him a quadriplegic.

by Jeff Jacoby

The choice of one of the world's most repressive tyrannies to head the UN's main human rights body was a textbook illustration of the way the UN works.

by Lawrence Kelemen

What they don't want you to know about television and videos.

by Rabbi Shraga Simmons

Each word and action is brimming with power. The trick is aiming in the right direction.

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

It's time to release Jonathan Pollard.

by Jonathan Rosenblum

The ethicist of the NY Times gets it wrong.

by Daniel Pipes

The jihad element cannot be so readily dismissed.

by Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky

As a face appeared in the crosshairs, the DC sniper took aim at a whole world.

by Jeff Jacoby

A smug little group of Norwegian politicians continues to show disturbingly bad judgment in choosing the Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

by Daniel Pipes

Only when "war on terrorism" becomes "war on militant Islam" can the war actually be won.

by Rabbi Ken Spiro

Where did the values and principles of the modern world come from?

by Jeff Jacoby

In the war against terror, our moral clarity is as indispensable as our Special Forces and our F-16s. Let us resolve not to lose it.

by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

The heroes and villains of 9/11.

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

September 11th and the danger of moral relativism.

by Rabbi Yonason Goldson

The ruling barring "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance shares a similar hubris that contributed to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

by Emuna Braverman

After September 11th, I decided to become an American citizen. Here's why.

by Jeff Jacoby

Revisiting a painful and, alas, timely issue: Should people watch the gruesome video of Daniel Pearl's brutal murder?

by Daniel Pipes

This year's report on "Patterns of Global Terrorism" veers into unreliability and even falsehood. It's a dangerous document likely to harm the war on terrorism.

by Rabbi Yonason Goldson

Turn off the tube, turn on your mind.

by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Why does such vile enmity wrack Europe, while America not only remains free of it but persists in standing by Israel in the present clash with the Palestinians?

by Binyamin Netanyahu

It's not the deprivation of rights; it's totalitarianism.

Palestinian gunmen occupy the Church of the Nativity, as Israeli troops keep watch outside. Who's crossed the line?

by Erin Zimmerman

During the Holocaust, the world watched silently. Will things be any different this time?

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

If the quality of integrity is absent in the person, how can it be present in his or her ideas?

by Jeffrey Dunetz

When a Jewish family needs help with drug abuse, where can they turn?

by Saul Singer

The form of tolerance that pretends there is no such thing as evil is itself wrong.