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It appears that the apprehension of former Bosnian Serb leader, Rodovan Karadzic, who was arrested for war crimes yesterday, was due more to ego and the love of costumes than to great police work. Years of searching for the architect of the ethnic cleansing which took the lives of thousands, did not locate him. It…

Shame on The Huffington Post’s coverage of the on again – off again – on again relationship between Ivanka Trump and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner, which manages to use the word shiksa numerous times in a piece of less than 100 words. In fact, shame on them, the person who tipped me to…

With 24 civilians wounded, one of whom lingers near death, and the terrorist himself dead (no, I don’t think they are morally equivalent, and I don’t mourn his loss. But like all of us, he had parents who will, and ignoring that fact will not help anyone–so why not acknowledge it from the outset?), I…

A friend forwarded me the following link: www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. It got me thinking about a parallel site which could be stuffjewishpeoplelike.com, and what lists and descriptions people might put there. To get you started, I am including some of the suggestions that other friends have already shared with me. 1. Guilt 2. Uh, more guilt 3.…

In response to a wonderful set of questions generated by yesterday’s post on how to deal with a painful past, I continue where yesterday left off. Lucy wrote: I’m wondering if the concept of pain that you are referring to means specifically a communal pain that Jews feel together….of course we handle such tragedies by…

We all have events from our past which cause us pain. The question is how to deal with them. Today is the 20th of July, but it is also the 17th day in the month of Tammuz, according to the Jewish calendar. That means it is a little-observed fast day (about 10% of Jews, including…

I leave the Madrid Conference for Global Religious Dialogue this morning with many things, including a mysterious gift, many questions, and genuine hope for the future. But the gift comes with the best story, so let’s start there. The phone in my room rang last night at 12:56 in the morning. I know exactly what…

Two hundred Muslims, Christians, Jews, and the followers of more eastern traditions than I can list, set out in four buses this morning from the Auditorium Hotel in Madrid, on our way to the Palace. Yes, it sounds like the opening of an old vaudville joke, but that is what happened. We were on our…

I landed in Madrid this morning at the invitation of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He is convening a meeting of religious leaders from around the world as he enters the global conversation between people of faith about how their beliefs can contribute to creating a safer and more humane world. I cannot escape the…

What’s on your door? That’s what The Wall Street Journal wants to know. It better not be a religious symbol, according to the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. At least that’s what lots of folks would have us believe the court said. It sounds like the court has it in for “the Jews” or…
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