The Blogs: PEN: The New Wound | Shlomo Levin
For many of us, Oct. 7th 2023 was hurtful not just because of the attack, but even more…
The Blogs: Being Falsely Accused of Genocide Is Better Than Being the Victim of One | Lisa Shatz
War is always a human tragedy and the suffering in Gaza has been terrible. Innocent civilians have been…
The Blogs: Israel and the Colonialism Debate | Saurav Dutt
The debate over Israel and colonialism has become one of the defining ideological battles of the modern Middle…
The Blogs: Stop Turning Israel Into America’s Political Stage | Anna Steinberg
Israel welcomes debate. Israelis argue with each other every day. They criticize their leaders. They question Israeli policies.…
The Blogs: Openness is Not the Absence of Conviction | Samantha Kahn
Here’s the irony. The very people defending Reform Judaism’s commitment to openness sometimes seem uncomfortable when someone asks…
Survey finds less than half of Jews in Milwaukee identify as Zionists
Yet another survey has found that fewer than half of Jews in an American city identify as Zionists,…
The Blogs: What It Means to Fight Like Hell | Shelly Steinwurtzel
Weeks have passed since the New York City primary, and I’m still trying to name what I feel.…
The Blogs: No Thanks, Rahm | Caleb Creizman
No Thanks, Rahm Rahm Emanuel had a lot to say during his recent trip to Israel. To sum…
The Blogs: How Israel Can Make Its Case to a Skeptical America | Seth Eisenberg
The old case, the new audience Earlier this week, I wrote that Benjamin Netanyahu had delivered, twice in…
The Blogs: Matot–Masei: Is Living in Israel One of the 613 Mitzvot? Who Cares! | David Harbater
Rabbi Dr. David Harbater is a published author, Jewish educator and public speaker. His book “In the Beginnings:…
The Blogs: Watching Netanyahu Make the Case — to an America That No Longer Exists | Seth Eisenberg
New polling shows the firewall Israel built on the American right is quietly cracking On Tuesday I watched…
The Blogs: A Country Is Not Loved by Pretending It Is Simple | Avi Finley
Yesterday there were two flags hanging outside my parents’ house in Israel: the American flag and the Israeli…