When Bibi Netanyahu sits down for dinner in the White House on Wednesday evening, he can be assured of one thing; he will not have a friend in the room.

In past peace negotiation efforts, Israeli leaders have been able to rely on U.S. administrations that displayed an understanding that a safe and secure Israel is in their best interests. However it is widely believed that President Obama does not fully share such sentiments, as reflected by recent polls among Israelis and American Jews.

There is no doubt that Netanyahu will be placed under tremendous pressure to make ...

As a Jewish Republican, I often meet non-Jewish Republicans who do not understand why Jewish voters continue to back the Democratic Party when it has abandoned its strong support of Israel, while at the same time the Republican Party has unapologetically stood by Israel.  I share my fellow Republicans' frustration at this lack of electoral progress. However, there are some encouraging signs that the GOP might finally be able to shake its brand's stigma among Jewish voters.  If so, the likelihood of GOP electoral success in states with significant Jewish populations, such as Ohio, ...

When you detonate explosives attached to your torso, simultaneously decapitating people on a bus or disemboweling little children at a kindergarten, do you go to heaven or to hell? Are you a martyr or a murderer? Heroic or heinous?

While the answer might seem straightforward to some, it clearly flummoxed Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, he of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, when it was asked of him by Barbara Walters in her 2006 TV special on heaven.

In response to the question as to whether suicide bombers go to heaven, Imam Rauf said, "One of the things that we are taught is never to say somebody will go to hell or somebody will go to ...