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After a few weeks of Israel-bashing, we are back to the regular indifference. It seems that with Israel’s war in Gaza on the wane, so too are the world’s humanitarian concerns. The streets of Europe are getting quieter. Protests outside Israeli and American embassies and on the steps of houses …

Israel doesn’t celebrate the Fourth of July, but during the weekend the skies over the southern border with Gaza were filled with the rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air, giving proof through the night that Hamas was still there. There were fireworks in the cities, too, brought about …

Some women have marvelous relationships with their mothers. Many women don’t. When Mother’s Day comes around every year, these women struggle with conflicting feelings. Hurts, past and ongoing, often cripple our relationships.How do we move forward without getting lost in the past? Dr. Jill Hubbard and I would like to …

Editor’s note: April is Autism Awareness Month. High school: the terrifying, turbulent world of teenagers when we become vessels of chaos due to the pressures of school, interactions with others, attempts to explore individuality and, of course, raging hormones. In the process, we want to emerge with our reputations and …

Baseball season is beginning, and I can’t wait. There are many reasons why I love the game that is so deservedly called “America’s pastime,” but here’s the big one: Baseball is a game where 100-to-1 odds come true, where miracles happen, where long shots become champions and where performance can …

The European Union (EU) regulates the curvature of cucumbers, the contour of radish “shoulders” and the arc of pea pods. We should not be surprised, then, by Brussels’ recent demand that American cheese makers refrain from labeling their products as “feta,” “mozzarella,” “parmesan” or any other appellation of European origin. …

With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC, PBS, Washington Post, and BBC were breathless over a soon-to-be-released study by Daniel Webster in the Journal of Urban Health. The claim is that when Missouri in 2007 made it easier to buy handguns, the murder …

Tuesday’s decision by the D.C. Circuit Court to strike down most of the Obama administration’s Open Internet Order spared American innovators from the potentially devastating effects of this backdoor attempt to implement net neutrality. It also, however, left the door open for federal regulators to continue meddling with Internet freedom. …

During the Christmas season when many celebrate a unique and miraculous birth, what the late Pope John Paul II called “a culture of death” continues its march. Last week, the upper house of the Belgian Senate voted to extend a 2002 law legalizing euthanasia for adults so that it includes …

It happened suddenly and without explanation. U.S. citizen Pastor Saeed Abedini is now in grave danger – his life is at risk after a very troubling development just days ago in Iran. For more than a year, Pastor Saeed has been imprisoned in Iran because of his Christian faith. He’s …