Speech delivered on Sunday, April 21, 2013, at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, at the commemoration marking the 68th anniversary of that Nazi concentration camp's liberation.

Standing here in the midst of the mass-graves of Bergen-Belsen, we are inexorably reminded that evil exists in this world. Ominous clouds hover once again over parts...

Over the course of the past five years, the once benign terms "Judeo-Christian values" and "Judeo-Christian tradition" have been turned into veritable cudgels against President Obama. A concept that was originally intended to represent a spirit of inclusiveness and tolerance has instead become a battle-cry of reactionary narrow-mindedness.

I found...

On December 14, 2012, immediately after 20 children and six of their teachers were gunned down in Newtown, Conn., President Obama said that, "we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics." To their discredit, however,...

On Thursday night, December 13, my wife Jeanie and I were privileged to be at the White House and listen to President Obama recall the "miraculous flame" that "brought hope and... sustained the faithful" as he and First Lady Michelle Obama joined leaders of the Jewish community to celebrate the...

The inherent problem with allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for Americans earning more than $250,000 a year -- let's call them $250k+ Americans -- is that not all $250k+ Americans are created equal.

Specifically, not all $250k+ Americans are rich, and those who are not should not have...

You gotta love the clown parade.

There will be plenty of time to analyze both the magnitude and the depth of the Obama victory. The same goes for discussions of the respective Obama and Romney campaigns, what went right and what went wrong, what surprisingly worked and what, in retrospect,...

With the 2012 presidential campaign rapidly coming to a close -- and not a moment too soon -- below are, in no particular order and based in part on some of my prior articles on The Huffington Post, my personal Top Five Reasons why I believe that President Obama should...

Last year, many Americans were hoping that Governor Romney would run for the presidency if not as a Rockefeller Republican then at least as a centrist Republican in the tradition of Presidents Eisenhower and Ford, New York Governor George Pataki, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., or even the largely pragmatic...

Especially in light of a new heavy-handed $6.5 million ad campaign by the Republican Jewish Coalition targeted at the Jewish communities in South Florida, Ohio and Nevada, all voters who are concerned about President Obama's position on Iran or continued U.S. support for Israel should -- no, must -- read...

As Jews throughout the world are about to observe Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, it is important to bear in mind that the Days of Awe that began last week with Rosh Hashanah, literally the beginning of the year, mark not the start of the Jewish calendar -- that...

A comment by Governor Mitt Romney during his Meet the Press interview caught my attention. Asked by David Gregory whether he was "the moderate from Massachusetts who championed Universal Health Care, who at one time was for abortion rights" or "a severe conservative," the Republican presidential nominee answered...

This is really not all that complicated. Once and for all, politicians and pundits of all persuasions should get it into their heads that making analogies to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany in the context of 21st century U.S. politics is not just unseemly but borders on, if not crosses...

Every once in a while, you have to feel sorry for Mitt Romney. One of his surrogates during his unsuccessful 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was Dr. John Willke, the controversial doctor who inspired Missouri Congressman Todd Akin's now infamous belief that a raped woman is unlikely to...

I was born in the Displaced Persons camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany in 1948. I am the son of two Polish Jews who survived the Nazi death and concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. I was stateless for the first 14 years of my life and settled in the United...

There is a solution to get Holocaust survivors beyond the seemingly endless stalemates and complications that continue to characterize the ongoing debate over Holocaust-era insurance claims. And I do not believe it can be found in a well-intentioned bill presently before the U.S. Congress.

This different approach will put money...

Human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in a speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on December 6, 2011, "are the birthright of all people. It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are....

Any objective observers reading the Polish prime minister's and foreign minister's overreactions to an innocent phraseological error -- and that is all it was -- by President Obama could only have been left scratching their heads in amazement. Prime Minister Donald Tusk charged that the President had perpetrated...

The Obama administration's actual record is far more instructive than its critics' politically inspired rhetoric in providing guidance in this year's presidential election campaign to those of us who care about US-Israel relations. It is clear that under President Obama's leadership, as he has repeatedly reassured both Israelis...

Let's assume for a moment that a presidential candidate of either party had come out against interracial marriage. How many of us would be inclined to vote for him or her?

Until 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the anti-miscegenation laws of 16 states including Virginia, Texas, Florida, North...

Reacting to the inclusion of the "white nationalist" anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow on a panel on "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the Pursuit of Diversity Is Weakening the American Identity" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Ed Schultz observed on MSNBC's The Ed Show that, "We've...