As Jon Stewart said Thursday night, his job for the past 16 years has been to deliver jokes based on the news.
On Thursday, however, he simply could not do his job – the killing of nine at an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina had left him, for the first time, unable to write jokes.
Below is video of Stewart’s joke-less monologue, in which he delivers one of the most impassioned segments of his career.
A new documentary called “From October 6 to October 7,” which premiered in February at the 37th Israeli Film Festival in Los Angeles, is showing Doron’s life on the big screen.
There is something in this people, covenanted to justice, to memory, to one another, that is impossible to extinguish.
Americans – and Israelis in particular – are not reacting to spin, or to partisan framing, or to media distortions. They are reacting to the text of the agreement itself, and to what has followed it.
America’s 250th birthday arrives at a time when things have been especially lousy for Jews. But gratitude is a great Jewish value, so we’ve created a very special birthday present: an e-book with 250 reasons to be grateful for America.
Wandering through narrow streets filled with cafés, restaurants and small boutique shops, it was easy to understand why so many Israeli visitors fall in love with Greece and keep coming back or simply stay permanently.
It’s all too common that Israeli athletes such as Smotritsky compete in front of crowds that they expect will be disrespectful.
“I wanted to have a space where we could share what we were feeling without hearing everything else that was going on.”
The documents were carefully selected by the National Archives’ Office of Presidential Libraries in collaboration with nonprofit Presidential Foundations.
Nowadays, as a mother and grandmother, I need to cook healthy, nutritious meals and sweet potatoes are one of my favorite ingredients.
Fresh lemons are the perfect finish to a cocktail, salad dressing, soup, marinade, fish or chicken main, pasta, pesto, etc.
America’s 250th birthday arrives at a time when things have been especially lousy for Jews. But gratitude is a great Jewish value, so we’ve created a very special birthday present: an e-book with 250 reasons to be grateful for America.
Right-wing voters view themselves as ideologues driven by core issues and substance, not by the admiration for a single politician.
Almost overnight, Yair Golan transformed from a retired general into one of the most talked-about politicians in Israel.
Beyond the on-field excitement of global soccer lies a deeper opportunity: to draw hard-earned lessons from the nations that have long dominated the beautiful game.
It is very hard to stay calm in these times, but I do believe the best way to do so is through balance.
The Hamas supporters have managed, at least for now, to turn American elected officials and a large portion of the American population against one of its foremost allies.
Trump’s biggest headache will be Netanyahu, his erstwhile ally who now recognizes that continued loyalty to the American leader would cost him his own reelection this fall.
America is not modern Israel’s creator, and Israel is not America’s dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.
