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Cyber-stalking and the search for real intimacy.

In writer-director Spike Jonze’s new film “Her,” Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, a personalized greeting card writer who has trouble connecting with women....

It doesn’t take a professor to see academic boycott of Israel is just plain dumb

In the aftermath of the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli academic institutions, the academic community across the U.S. has begun...

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Nearly six in 10 U.S. Jews married since 2000 have a non-Jewish spouse. Are we losing identity or gaining family?

Jennifer Marcus Crivella, a 43-year-old stay-at-home mother and former elementary school teacher, the...

From The Jewish Week

For those who view life and romance holistically, online dating services focus frustratingly on surface glitter.

Note: This is the first in a series of columns about online dating.

A few years ago, Paige  S., a...

Midtown, New York City–In the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement on Sunday that Iran will be given $7 billion in sanctions relief and no new sanctions will be imposed on the Islamic Republic, Jewish groups worldwide are...

President Obama’s apology on Thursday for the first of Obamacare’s unforseen consequences is a reminder that the road to hell is often paved with good intentions.

This truism is perhaps especially the case when it comes to the...

With all the hubbub about the impossibility of signing up for Obamacare, why not just scrap it and create a smaller program insuring the 40 million uninsured?

In response to renewed calls from the public for examination of the Benghazi coverup, voices on the left have urged senator Lindsey Graham and others who persist in holding the Obama administration to account to just “let it go.”

If...

With the anniversary of JFK’s death approaching next month, it is intriguing to speculate as to what the 35th president would have made of recent domestic political developments including the election of President Obama, and...

From The Jewish Week

We’ve seen him around, that salt-and-pepper-haired, 40-something Paul Newman lookalike. At the center of a Jewish young professionals’ event, he’s surrounded by a bevy of dark-haired women. He’s charismatic....