Perhaps it was on the limb-strewn battlefields during the Franco-Prussian war...

Okay, so Anthony Weiner has resigned. Now everyone can go home happy and make believe all is well in our Republic. We got the lying tweeter.

Democratic leadership can stop worrying that Republicans will use Weiner's inappropriate tweeting against them in a "values" attack in the next election. Their...

Dear Rep. Weiner:

While you have not solicited me for advice on the mess you have gotten yourself into I can't help but offer, as I too have impulse control issues, the following counsel -- especially as you are a fellow member of the tribe.

First of all let me...

Americans, to the tune of some $15 billion, will exchange flowers, jewelry, candy, stuffed animals and cards this Valentine's Day as an expression of romance and love. But Valentine's Day is actually a double-edged sword. On the surface, we celebrate how committed, secure and passionately in love we are --...

Please watch this interview and listen carefully with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might:



And then do this thought experiment.

Just imagine if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a press conference tomorrow and said something like this.

Watching the...

Here we go again. Sarah Palin has ratcheted up the rhetoric. In her words, chastising the media, she proclaimed, "within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is...

Grab your partner do si do. The results are in. Bush turned the country to the left and Obama has now turned the country to the right. Feels like politics has become a square dance of discontent swinging to the right, to our left and then to our right seemingly...

Over the past 69 days we have been witness to reality TV at its best. Not the faux reality TV staged to titillate or humiliate which leaves us entertained but needing to take a shower, rather a media experience that elevates and inspires and leaves us believing we are capable...

As an eighth-generation rabbi whose father came to this country in 1938 to escape religious persecution, and as president of a major American Jewish organization, Clal: The National Jewish Center of Learning and Leadership, I applaud and am inspired by President Obama's remarks on Friday night in support of the...

However intriguing it may be, the larger-than-life hubbub surrounding this Saturday evening's Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding -- who is invited and who feels snubbed, what the menu and wine list are, what the bride and her party will wear, who will be officiating and who will be entertaining, and all the levels...

I knew equality for LGBT evoked passionate conversation, but I would never have imagined nearly 1200 comments in response to my recent post, "Leviticus Loses: The Inevitability of Equal Rights for Homosexuals." In the post I wrote that a healthy political process in a pluralistic society like America...

This past week in synagogues throughout the world, the weekly portion of Scripture included the following verse from the book of Leviticus: "Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination." This proscription has obviously been the source of heated and often vicious...

As I read the myriad of posts from across the ideological spectrum about Passover, the most celebrated Jewish holiday (by both Jews and non-Jews) in America, I was struck by how much contemporary religion has deteriorated to political ideology in drag. The posts could almost all be divided into two...

Next Fall, which recently opened on Broadway, is the most profound, hilarious, and culturally important play I have seen in years. If you are among the 10% of Americans on each of the ideological extremes of the right and left, absolutely certain you know what is true and right regarding...

The slew of public apologies over the past week or so from Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, and Kanye West along with the apologies during the past year from Eliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford - each offered with different degrees of sincerity and histrionics - have turned us into apology voyeurs....

I live in New York City. Two friends, including someone at whose wedding I had recently been the rabbi died in the World Trade Center. The acrid smell came through my apartment windows for days and sacred ashes, which I wiped away with tears, fell on my window sills for...

Inglorious Basterds is a powerful, entertaining cinematic experience, but this is not what you want to hear from me, an eighth-generation rabbi whose father escaped the Nazis and immigrated to America from Poland in 1938 with his parents and brother, leaving most of his family behind to be murdered by...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's anger over a mistranslated question about her husband's view has become another one of those Clinton stories that enthralls us voyeurs -- whether as zealous demonizers or avid defenders -- of one of the paradigmatic power couples of our age. Beyond the vicarious thrills that...

Like many people, I have been engaged by Twitter -- it's a good way to keep in touch with busy friends and to connect with new people. The mundane updates and boredom-inspired reports on what people are having for lunch -- tuna sandwich, pickle, diet coke and apple for me...

Attorney General Eric Holder's comments earlier this week calling Americans "cowards" when it comes to conversations about race and the New York Post's cartoon depicting a bleeding wild looking monkey representing the stimulus package being shot dead by white policeman both evoked nasty attacks of racism. While Holder's statement and...