Every once in a while a story comes along so jolting that it is scarcely believable. One such story was that which appeared in the New York Times of all places this past Sunday about how the Jews' Free School in London has been ordered to admit a child whose...

The single greatest injustice facing American parents today is that they are financially forced to send their children to schools not of their choosing. If you want to understand the level of unfairness you need look no further than my home state of New Jersey. Saturday's Wall Street Journal reported...

There is a destructive myth taking hold about Michael Jackson, originated by some of his devotees, perpetuated by many in his entourage and articulated outright by the Rev. Al Sharpton in his eulogy at the Staples Center last July. As Rev. Sharpton put it, looking directly at Michael's orphaned children,...

This Sunday I'm going to be conducting an intimate conversation with Jon Gosselin at the West Side Jewish Center in Manhattan.

America has to start having serious conversations about fame.

Celebrity is undermining our culture; not only because so many people who attain it find that their lives have...

Over the weekend I read Startup Nation, the new book about why Israel has emerged as an unlikely global leader in high-tech. Even if its authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer were not my friends and, in the case of Saul, my editor at the post I would still say...

America continues to be gripped by Jon and Kate Gosselin whose marriage has now gone belly up and whose TV show seems to be following suit. After TLC informed Jon that he will no longer play a significant role in the show, he informed TLC that he is pulling the...

You've got to admire Jimmy Carter. No matter how wrong he is, no matter how many times he is refuted, no matter how inane his ramblings, he just keeps on coming back for more. Forget the fact that he was eviscerated in a landslide election where the American people overwhelmingly...

It was bizarre seeing this morning how hundreds of news sources on the Internet alleged that Michael Jackson admired Hitler and considered him a genius. Nothing could be further from the truth and these scandalous allegations are all based on a simple misrepresentation of a quote from Michael in my...

This coming Friday night, September 25th, NBC will air a one-hour, prime-time Dateline special hosted by Meredith Vieira, featuring a book I am publishing on the 30 hours of conversations that I conducted with Michael Jackson. The book, The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Private...

If J Street, the new left-wing Israel lobby, wants to be taken seriously by mainstream American Jewry, then I would suggest they immediately stop the patronizing argument that all those who disagree with them are ossified Jewish knuckledraggers who see an anti-Semite behind every corner. The New York Times magazine...

The recent controversy over President Barack Obama's speech to schoolchildren demonstrates the American ability to generate controversy over the most inane matters. Does anyone really have a problem with the president encouraging kids to take school seriously, to do their homework and to watch less TV?

I would...

Remarks by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the Rally at his home, immediately adjacent to the Libyan Compound in Englewood, NJ

It's a great pleasure for our family to be hosting you all here today, from dignitaries like our esteemed governor Jon Corzine and our beloved Senator Frank Lautenberg to...

Mayor Michael Wildes and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood, NJ, Confirm that Sunday's Rally Against Kaddafi Remains On; Thank Congressman Rothman for Speaking to the Libyans but Insist that Only State Dept Confirmation Sufficient

We are extremely grateful to our Congressman, Steve Rothman, for his strong and tireless efforts to...

The stomach-turning spectacle of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the terrorist who planted the bomb on Pam Am 103 in December, 1988, killing 270, being welcomed in Libya as a hero makes you lose hope that there is any justice in the world. What was the Scottish government thinking? That because...

My friends tell me that I'm the Jewish Forrest Gump, a man who unexpectedly finds himself in strange and surprising situations. But the place I find myself in now surprises even me. I've just discovered that Muammar Kaddafi is going to be my neighbor. Quite literally. In about a month....

A recent article in the New York Times sums up all that is wrong with the Obama administration's posture toward Israel. The article concerns President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with President Obama. What we first discover is that Mubarak has not visited the United States in five years because of...

America has a real opportunity to gauge its capacity for forgiveness in Michael Vick. Americans love their pets and especially their dogs. But here was a man who ran an illegal dog fighting operation that engaged in the most horrific treatment of pitbulls imaginable, including electrocuting them, shooting them, and...

This past Shabbat a Jerusalem parking lot just across the road from where I was staying, and which was open on the holy day, drew approximately 500 haredi demonstrators. One of the people caught in the demonstration was a secular Israeli friend who drove to see me with his wife...

It's become pretty rough being a Rabbi in New Jersey, where your friends call you up to ask not what you're planning to talk about in your Saturday sermon but whether you have a phone in your cell.

OK, poor attempt at humor. But this is honestly one of...

What is it about Americans that they can connect with pets but not with members of the opposite sex?

On a weekend trip with my family I was amazed to discover an upscale, beautifully decked out store selling healthy, organic food -- for dogs. In a country where 1 out...