Zionsim is often used as a slur. We must reclaim the term.
On Israel’s Independence Day on Wednesday, as Israelis mark 78 years since the founding of our state, a…
The Blogs: Not flying the flag this Independence Day | Daniel Orenstein
This Independence Day I’m not going to fly the flag. I’m not going to gush over Israel as…
The Blogs: ‘But even so’: Memorial Day and the sacred canopy of Israeli life | Tanya White
I will say something that may make many of my Diaspora friends uncomfortable: there is a fault line…
The Blogs: Walking Warsaw Ghetto, While My Child Is in Israel | Adele Stowe-Lindner
A year ago, I planned a three-generation family journey to Poland for April 2026: my Polish-born father, my…
The Blogs: Nostalgia For The Past: Independence Day | Naomi Graetz
Gemini image for independence day in style of Marie Cassatt On May 2, 1968, my parents and my…
The Blogs: Defiantly Alive | Ben Lazarus
On Mourning, Dancing, and the Jewish Refusal to Choose Between Them Many have written about us. Twain. Churchill.…
The Blogs: Our Only Choice | Harold L. Katz
This week in Israel is very different beginning with last night’s Yom-Ha’zikaron-Day of Remembrance. It is a night…
The Blogs: 78 Going on 100: In the War of Information, We Are at a Loss for Words | Nathalie Cohen-Sheffer
Hasbara, from the Hebrew word “to explain.” So many of us are still racking our brains how to…
As Former Leaders of Israel’s Military, We Know the Country Has Been Hijacked
The politization of the ceremony is a symptom of a much deeper malady. This government is totally out…
The Blogs: Between Memory and Hope | Jeffrey Levine
As we approach Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut, we pause. We remember our fallen soldiers—those who paid with…
The Blogs: Celebrating Israel at 78 amid unprecedented challenges | Kenneth Jacobson
Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut this week, its 78th Independence Day. Since it comes so close this year to…
The Blogs: This Memorial Day, let’s remember Israel’s 1948 foreign volunteers | Aron Heller
Unlike Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is focused squarely on our painful past, the country’s annual Memorial Day…