Kenneth Lasson

The writer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, is author of Defending Truth: The Quest for Honesty about Jews and Israel, due out in January.

 THIS WEEK, the US Supreme Court ruled that Joe Kennedy, a Christian, former high school football coach in Washington state, had the right to pray on the field immediately after games.

What is the place of prayer in schools? -opinion

 A COUNTER demonstration group protests in 2019 against Polish Americans holding a demonstration in Manhattan against a bill passed by the House of Representatives that supports victims of the Holocaust and their families in the process of restitution and recovery of property in New York City.

How to handle racist demonstrations - opinion

A COVID-19 testing center in Tel Aviv. A nation's strongest instinct is survival - even at the cost of individual rights.

Pandemic has created unprecedented constitutional challenges - analysis


Surfside collapse: Why did Israel send help? - opinion

Israel responds immediately to emergencies around the world not because the victims are Jewish, but because they are human.

A MEMBER of the Miami-Dade Fire Department speaks with an Israeli rescue worker at the site of the collapsed condominium complex in Surfside, Florida, earlier this month.

Canceling free speech leads to whitewashing history - opinion

Whatever happened to the once-noble American traditions of free speech, an open marketplace of ideas and academic freedom?

PROTESTERS ATTACH a chain to a statue of Andrew Jackson in front of the White House in Washington last summer.

How did Abraham Lincoln view religion, Jews? - opinion

Lincoln often championed the rights of Jewish Americans, many of whom he counted among his closest friends.

Abraham Lincoln

Marching on the Capitol, then and now - opinion

The whole sad event dissipated within hours, and will likely be relegated to last week’s news by this week’s headlines.

An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of US President Donald Trump gather in front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, US, January 6, 2021

Why Trump should move US Embassy to Jerusalem

It’s a wonder that US passports for people born in Israel’s holy city don’t list them as having entered the world in “Occupied Jerusalem.”

The US embassy in Tel Aviv

Holy wars and hot dogs

Religious squabbling in the booming business of kosher sausages

Hot dogs in hot dog eating contest.

Pollard’s punitive parole

Pollard was sentenced on the basis of private statements to the judge by then secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger, which were never seen by Pollard’s lawyers nor subjected to cross-examination.

Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard departs US District court after a hearing with his wife Elaine in the Manhattan borough of New York December 14, 2015.

America’s foolish policy

According to the US State Department, our first grandson – born almost exactly 15 years ago in Jerusalem, is a young man without a country.

A view of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Obama’s tin ear

Jonathan Pollard is being severely punished for deeds he never committed.

Jonathan Pollard