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Imagine the invading Greek army entering the Holy Temple where gold, silver and precious stones were everywhere to be found, and searching for the... oil!

It has been said that negative campaigning is "as American as Mississippi mud." So is there anything we can do about it?

Plucking a child out of his or her native environment is very traumatizing for the child. But sometimes the child's very life depends on it. Here's what you can do to ease the transition...

As a member of the Jewish people I say, "Pluto, we feel your pain..."

Israel will fight back until Hamas and Hezbollah accept a cease fire, at least for the time being. Yet that is exactly what we must fear...

Finding the middle ground between military force and pacific diplomacy

Some people think that everything a person does should have a spiritual purpose. Those people are right

Matisyahu, who will be celebrating the Passover seders this year with his family at a college campus Chabad House, speaks about what Passover means to him, and the influence of Chassidic philosophy on his music, his daily life and his inner self

On the rare occasions when we are swayed by an "opinion piece" on a controversial issue, more often than not it's not by the arguments made, but by who is making them

When something consistently reoccurs in our world--a particular weather pattern, a bottle-nosed dolphin migrating habit, a quirk of human behavior--we call it "nature." Apparently, the Jews-in-the-news phenomenon is a force of nature...

It's hard for us to comprehend that there are people who are merciless and get joy out of murder. Innately, we refuse to see that we are being tricked, preferring to believe that our enemies want peace, as we do...

"Why should we pray for him?" one community member responded to my e-mail. "Have you already forgotten what he did to our brothers and sisters in the Gaza Strip?"

They built a barricade to protect themselves from the deadly gasses, they donned their oxygen tanks, and they waited and waited and waited...

Our mission and purpose may be hidden, perhaps, even, never fully revealed; yet a simple action--or inaction--on our part has the power to change the world

Is he a liberal or a conservative? What's her position on issue X? ... Or should we be asking an entirely different set of questions?

We strap a rocket on our back. A fiery blast of passion frees us of earth's seemingly irresistible gravity. Yet the fulfillment of our mission depends on a successful landing...

The borderless war by terrorism is a new phenomenon, but its roots are age-old: an ideology of discontent that causes people to be disgusted by and ultimately hate cultures different to theirs