Senate affirms commitment to Israeli military’s qualitative edge

Published on July 2, 2012

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that reaffirms U.S. security commitments to Israel.

'Ask Her When She's Sober'

By Marty Kaplan
Published on March 26, 2012

Until Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child were murdered by Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean and buried in his backyard, her congressman, Mike Turner, had a record like any other garden-variety Republican warrior on women. With his 100 percent perfect opposition to women’s freedom of choice over their reproductive systems, Turner’s Dayton, Ohio-area constituents had been represented by just the kind of disciplined hard-core conservative that John Boehner and Eric Cantor rely on.

TV Military Drama ‘Homeland’ Taps Into America’s Psyche

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 19, 2011

In the ring, at the front, boxer Barney Ross packed a punch

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on September 21, 2006

"Barney Ross" by Douglas Century.

Kids Page

By Abby Gilad
Published on September 8, 2005

Kids Page

MY IRAQ

Published on May 26, 2005

When a Marine finds himself in a ditch or an abandoned house, suddenly under fire, having to decide where to shoot and who to kill, it may not much matter if the Marine is Jewish. It was before and after the firefights in Iraq that Marine Corps Sgt. Kayitz Finley remembered and confronted his belief.

The war in Iraq cost Finley his faith for awhile. It also took away 11 buddies -- including a close friend -- men on whom he'd depended to get home in one piece. Still, for Finley, the conflict was never the wrong war, the wrong place or the wrong time. For him, the Iraq War was as advertised -- a war of liberation, a war keeping faith with the American principle of bringing freedom to those lacking it.

"Every Marine out there was for the cause," said Finley, who served two combat tours in Iraq. "I believe in the cause, and I wanted to continue what I was doing."