The Blogs: Zionistish and Ziophobish: Why the World Needs a Spectrum | Ivan Bassov
Love and hate are extremes. Support and opposition are the reality. In my somewhat satirical article — satirish,…
The Blogs: To the Royal Commission on Antisemitism | Meir Holtz
First and foremost, I would like to thank you for the important work of this Commission, which gives…
The Blogs: When Israelis Become Targets Everywhere | Ethan Kushner
There was a time when many people insisted there was a bright moral line between opposing Israeli government…
The future of Israeli education depends on teaching history, not headlines
Many dedicated Israel educators believe that keeping pace with the latest headlines from Jerusalem and Gaza delivers a…
The Blogs: Are Secular Israelis Still Jewish? | Rachel Collins
Every Shavuot, Israel reveals one of its deepest unresolved identity crises. Religious Jews celebrate the giving of the…
Disconnect Widens Between Mamdani and Pro-Israel Jewish Leaders
As the news of a thwarted terrorist plot against a New York City synagogue quickly spread last Friday,…
Some universities start acting against anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate | JNS
The encampments have vanished from most campuses, the headlines have quieted and the incident numbers are technically lower,…
Shavuot’s lesson for Israel: Sovereignty without purpose cannot survive
As Israel approaches the holiday of Shavuot amid war, political division, and renewed international attacks on its legitimacy,…
How Israel Got This Way
Implied in the question posed by the title of Omer Bartov’s new book, Israel: What Went Wrong?, is…
Israel and Argentina launch Isaac Accords in Latin America
Signing for Argentina was its president, Javier Milei, who had just arrived in Israel for a historic visit.…
How Shavuot was rescued by the Torah, and brought home by Israel
Of all the holidays in the Jewish calendar, Shavuot has often seemed like the poor relation. Passover arrives…
‘Why Should Israel Belong to a Belgian Jew More Than to a Druze From the Carmel?’
Professor Avner Ben-Zaken. Credit: Hadas Parush In a new book, historian Avner Ben-Zakan, head of the Institute for…