The battle between Facebook's 'open' web and Google's 'closed' web is on. It will be intriguing to watch these two giants going head-to-head for years to come, as they race to define the future content usage models of the Internet. What Google has already discovered, and Facebook is yet to...

Shavuot celebrates the day the nation of Israel received its Torah (the Bible) and is associated with blossoming trees, flowers, milk and honey. Honey is the only kosher product that comes out of a non-kosher producer. So what were Israel's greatest scholars and mystical thinkers trying to convey as to...

Looking back to the 1993 Oslo Accords, it is astounding that a series of distorted perspectives actually served as the catalyst for these negotiations. Moreover, these distortions, in turn, led to a series of events that has driven the Israeli people and, indeed, much of the world to pursue a...

An interesting article appeared in the weekend papers that ostensibly featured GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. What fascinated me about the piece was the fact that, in highlighting the Republican candidate, the article likewise demonstrated the growth of evangelical political power. At a campaign rally in Louisiana, Pastor Dennis Terry...

Jewish scholarly works frequently refer to the 'neck' in many instances relating it to the Temple's location in Jerusalem. One particular study of verse 4:4 in the Song of Songs, can be translated from its 22 letter Hebrew origin to: "Your neck is the Tower of David, built as an...

In a Washington backroom, the strategic battle lines being planned on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) front rapidly shifted gears last week. Publishers of the Internet's most popular websites took a stand in opposition to the proposed legislation aimed at eradicating Internet piracy. That legislation would further empower government...

When Rabbi Shmuley Boteach approached me to read the manuscript of his newly published book "Kosher Jesus," I was reticent and even a bit cautious given the massive and diverse audience of people that would likely be affected by his unique perspective on the subject of Jesus. Upon completion of...

On my walk through my local shopping strip on Saturday I overheard the florist comment that he'd sold more Christmas trees this year to Jewish families than non-Jewish families, and it got me thinking that the state of play for Team-Jewish is at a critical point of the game.

Co-opting...

In one fell swoop, Newt Gingrich focused the worlds' attention on all of the ignorance that has plagued Israel through more than 30 years of rhetoric and innuendo: a rhetoric cultivated by Israel's opponents and nurtured by those complacent enough to accept it as gospel. Beginning as early as the...

Just last week, a Memorandum of Understanding between Magen David Adom (Israel's primary ambulance service organization, known as MDA) and the Palestine Red Crescent Society was leaked. The unintentionally disclosed MoU not only speaks to attitudes between and within the two ambulatory societies themselves but it also offers up...

It's no wonder Israel's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt is under threat, after all, this was a treaty orchestrated by American politicians who colluded with Egypt's leaders to cajole Israelis into believing that the conditions for peace existed. After decades in power, however, the autocratic Egyptian regime that agreed to...

What would happen if you traveled back in time and killed your mother before she gave birth to you? That would mean you could never be born, in which case, how could you have traveled back in time?

This riddle of cause-and-effect, while fun to spend a few hours scratching...

On a recent trip to Israel, where I visit frequently, I was struck anew by the incredibly vibrant domestic economy that is flourishing there. This thriving market is all the more notable as its growth stands as a contrast to the stagnant economic life of other developed nations as well...

In March of last year, the physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland set a record for the most energetic science experiment ever conducted, probing space and time with unprecedented precision. The LHC is the culmination of an experimental program that began in the early part of the 20th...

An atheist and a God-fearing man pursue knowledge of the unknown and in the pursuit, material and spiritual worlds apparently opposed are unified. Juxtaposed, Science and Religion continue their respective journey's, inextricably bound by the unknown they peel away at its edge. Does it lead us to a dark abyss...