My eyes are going. Just last month I found myself lifting my glasses to read something, the way, you know, old people do. And my knees hurt. And the only impressive thing about the mediocre town we overpaid to buy our house in is the number of ways it is...

File this one in the "hard to believe, but it's true" folder.

Delta Air Lines is currently working on adding Saudi Arabian Airlines to its SkyTeam of partnering companies, which already includes (amongst others) such foreign airlines as Aeroflot, AeroMexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China...

What do you do when the religion you believe in happens to believe in things you don't? In particular, when it endorses moral beliefs which you, simply, do not?

A recent example much in the news is San Francisco's proposed ban on ritual circumcision. You don't have...

Almost everyone agrees about Israel's military superiority over its adversaries. After all, it has won all the conventional wars, as well as the less-conventional ones such as that with Hamas in 2008-09 -- Hamas's fantastic victory declarations, amidst the ruins of Gaza City, notwithstanding. But there is another war, an...

John Lennon and the Jews (JL&J), a new book by Ze'ev Maghen, is an extremely original and significant piece of writing.

It should be read by every Jew, no matter where you stand on the long spectrum between strict religious observance and determined rejection of the...

Most people don't believe in God. At least not really.

I'm speaking primarily of people who claim to believe in God. My assertion isn't that no one really believes in God. It's merely that far fewer people than you might think really do believe in God.

This assertion does...

Are all the major religions the same? Obviously not. But are they ultimately the same? Quite possibly, depending on what the word "ultimately" means here. Stephen Prothero's best-selling book, God Is Not One, makes the rather easy case that the major religions are not all the same. But that is...

Tony Judt's boldly titled New York Times Op-Ed, "Israel Without Clichés" (June 9, 2010), is a wolf in sheep's clothing if ever there was one.

The essay advertises itself as "cleaning house" with respect to the "tired accusations and ritual defenses" typical of Middle-East discussions, as if, in effect,...

The epiphanies came as suddenly and strong as my newborn's projectile spit-up. Yes, I realized, I should wear a burping cloth. And also, the Paradox of the Preface is the key to universal religious harmony and world peace.

It might also help you lose that weight, quit smoking, and...

They talk a lot, and loudly, and all at the same time. If they were your family during Thanksgiving, they'd be talking with their mouths full. It would be almost amusing if it weren't, on some important level, rather tragic.

I'm referring, of course, to the nonstop talking heads...