When you look at the facts and the cruel fate of Greece's Jews, it would appear at first glance that the millenia-old community suffered the same fate as many of Europe's Jewish communities at the hands of Hitler's mad men. Indeed their fate was a cruel one and over 80...

A year ago I sat, bewildered reading headlines about a humanitarian catastrophe beginning to unfold in Greece and a diaspora that had not yet mobilized. Since January of 2012 when my first Huffington Post piece was published, a lot has changed.

The Greek Orthodox Church in America...

When my friends at the Hellenic American Leadership Council, an organization building new leaders in the Greek American community through activity in public affairs of our nation, asked me to write a piece for their new blog page, I thought long and hard about a topic -- to...

Watching heart-wrenching stories about destitute Greeks coping with the crisis that has consumed the nation isn't exactly what I had in mind when I journeyed home for the holidays. But this is exactly what I'm seeing minute after minute on the various Greek satellite television channels at my mother's house.

Yes, you've read the headline correctly. Greece's brilliant marketers -- the very agency responsible for promoting Greece's image abroad -- have resorted to adding the "visit Greece" slogan on seven million placemats that will grace the tables of thousands of diners up and down the Northeast corridor of the United...

As the world continues to focus on what took place at the University of California, Davis and more specifically on the school's chancellor, Dr. Linda Katehi -- I feel compelled to add my voice to the outcry. Although I join the tens of thousands in the condemnation against the UC...

October 28th marks the 71st anniversary of a little known event that changed the course of world history. If you don't believe me, read on.

Backwater, forlorn, near-bankrupt Greece -- with a handful of rickety airplanes, a navy that was barely afloat and a hodgepodge military that hadn't yet...

John Katsimatides would often seek refuge from the noise, chaos and stress of working in the mecca of the world's financial center by visiting the tiny church of St. Nicholas, located literally a stone's throw from the front doors of Tower A of the...

An article I read on CNN.com prompted me to take stylus to iPad and begin writing this commentary. The article talked about Greek Americans to the rescue -- organizing to help the homeland in her time of need.

 The headline was intriguing enough to warrant a click through...