And let me get this out of the way: we didn't talk about Borat. I didn't ask him if anyone had ever jokingly threatened to throw the Jew down the well. He didn't show me a picture of his pet chicken. To have gone into any of this, even as a joke would have been incredibly disrespectful, not to menti...

Russia's chief Chabad rabbi castigated the United States for its refusal to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment. In an interview published Wednesday in a Russian newspaper, Rabbi Berel Lazar said the only reasoning behind retaining the amendment was political and that it's usefulness had long ago pas...