Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled "The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land.’" The essence of the report is that according to the Bible, Jews have no more attachment to the land of Israel than anyone else. Hence "promised land" is in quotation marks in the report’s…

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced last week that it will discontinue the free school breakfast plan it initiated last year. Called "Food for Thought," the plan provides school breakfasts to about 200,000 students. It was funded by the LAUSD and the nonprofit Los Angeles Fund for Public Education, whose goal is to…

It is well known that most college students engage at one time or another in what is known as a "hookup" — an emotionless, commitment-less sexual encounter. Yesterday, I interviewed Donna Freitas, author of "The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy." In our dialogue,…

We cannot bring back the stolen lives. We cannot bring back the lost limbs or the lost hearing. And we cannot mitigate the infinite grief of the victims’ loved ones. But there is something we can and must do: We must learn all the lessons we can. Here are some: 1. The gulf between the…