On Monday, President Obama will sit down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With a showdown looming over Iran, their summit will not only be the most important meeting for either leader but it may also be the most consequential meeting for the entire Middle East since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s 1993 handshake with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.

At this event, panelists discussed the role of religion in modern society.

Yasser Arafat's death may open the way to progress in resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute because it opens the way to a new kind of Palestinian leadership.

Public awareness of the Holocaust has grown strikingly in recent years, resulting in a widespread appreciation of the enormity of that single historical event as well as its implications for our understanding of the most horrendous possibilities in human behavior. But this beneficial growth in Holocaust awareness has been paralleled...

In Israeli politics, defeated politicians such as Peres and Barak keep coming back.

In Israeli politics, defeated politicians like Peres and Baraksomehow keep coming back.

Jews may be the most conflicted voters in America.

Jewish voters tend to have conservative interests and liberal values. For decades, Jews have been voting their values. That tendency will really be put to the test in this year's election.