Joel Guberman has a colorful story – but it's all in hues of royal purple and brilliant blue...Long before Diaspora Jews came to specialize in the shmatta business, they had a historic connection to dyeing textiles, he explains...

Years ago when I was serving in the US Navy, a shipmate asked me which side I would I fight on if the U.S. and Israel ever went to war against each other...

The votes have been counted, the official results are now in and there is no doubt as to the outcome of Israel's February 10 elections: it was a clear and decisive victory for the right...what is known in the political world as a good ol' fashioned landslide.

Every year around this time I begin to look at my children appraisingly. I assess them, like a census taker for gender, height, weight and coloring. Then, armed only with a pen and a pad and the workings of my agitated mind, I sit alone in a room and think...

One of my conversion rabbis, Haskel Lookstein, recently made headlines for walking into a church. Upon converting to Judaism, I asked if I could ever enter a church again. I wasn't planning on attending services, but my best friend would get married someday in one...

I light my Shabbat candles, but it doesn't help. A 200-pound barbell is still balanced across my shoulders...

My dearest daughter: Last night we had a problem. Not a horrible problem, not something that was your fault, and yet I know our reaction caught you by surprise. I think you still don’t understand why we thought there was a problem in the first place. So now I owe it to you to sit down and explain exactly what the issue was and why we reacted the way we did.

While growing up in the States I remember that during one of the oil crises someone produced bumper stickers that read "PUT A JEW IN YOUR TANK." It was a take-off of an oil company's advertising jingle "Put a tiger in your tank."