At a recent stand-up comedy show at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, headliner Ahamed Weinberg welcomed the crowd with “Salaam aleikum.” About half of the audience responded “Aleikum salaam,” ...

At a Kremlin reception a top Russian leader said to India’s Prime Minister Nehru: “Your Excellency, we Russians make very good friends and nothing can separate us, but we are bad enemies, too—quite ...

A remarkable moment occurred early on in President Barack Obama’s recent speech at Cairo University. The audience gasped, then burst into wild applause, not over an idea or a proposal, but over a ...