Joseph Aaron

Jerry Seinfeld, after a visit to Israel, perfectly summed up the Israeli attitude towards everything; If you ask an Israeli to do something, Seinfeld said, you get one of two answers. ‘No problem at all’…

Okay, since I’m a big believer in unity, I have a suggestion about how to handle this whole wall on the southern border thing. An idea that could potentially make everyone happy, bring all sides…

I have my little pet theories. One of them is that every single big news story has a Jewish angle somewhere. Some you may have to look really hard for and some are obvious, but…

All hail Ally Raisman and Robert Luck. I don’t know if it’s that I’m getting older or Jews are getting worser, but it seems to me that never have so many Jews let us down…

I’m sensing a letter I got recently was not from a fan. I wrote a column in which I praised John McCain and George H.W. Bush for their kindness, their civility, their menschlichkeit and expressed…

So we’ve just begun a new secular year. What I like about that is that it gives me an excuse to think deep spiritual thoughts, try to make some larger point about looking back at…

There is policy and there is character. And while you might think one has nothing to do with the other, sooner or later, character always catches up with policy. For more than two years now,…

How very, very sad. Recently, a terrorist attack on a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ofra resulted in the shooting of a young couple. The woman was 30 months pregnant and was…

Kinder, gentler. Those two words were among the most famous uttered by President George H.W  Bush, a man known for many things, but being articulate or eloquent not being among them. And yet the power…