When balance becomes betrayal
Universalism, Cynthia Ozick once noted, has become the particularism of the Jews. Increasingly, our most fundamental belief about ourselves is that we dare not care about ourselves any more than we can...
View ArticleA responsibility to speak
It is the nature of Jewish life that its most critical issues have often been debated fiercely, and in public. In the Bible, there’s Korach versus Moses, disputing the critical question of what...
View ArticleWe Have Been Here Before
We’ve been here before. That’s the whole point of the Jewish calendar. None of this is new. We’ve been here before. That’s what Shiva Asar Be-Tammuz, the 17th day of Tammuz, which we will commemorate...
View ArticleSay thank you – it’s the Jewish thing to do
There were probably 1,000 people at today’s funeral for Yuval Hyman, z’l, killed outside Gaza by terrorists who had tunneled their way into the Jewish State. There were no dry eyes. No end to the...
View ArticleIsraelis don’t care that you’re insulted: An open letter to American Jews
We’ve had a rough week, those of us who care about the American Jewish – Israel relationship. As in all relationships, rough patches are painful, but they are also opportunities to think anew, to...
View ArticleWhen balance becomes betrayal
We are utterly abandoned by those who ought to be unabashedly at our side
View ArticleWe Have Been Here Before
First, we must win this war. Then, when the dust settles, we must ask ourselves what has happened to us
View ArticleSay thank you – it’s the Jewish thing to do
Absent AIPAC’s work, Israeli citizens would have been butchered these past weeks, and Israeli cities would have gone up in flames. Strangely though, that seems to bother Israel’s alleged supporters who...
View ArticleIsraelis don’t care that you’re insulted: An open letter to American Jews
American Jews should step back from Israeli security concerns, but lean way in when it comes to the matter of peoplehood
View ArticleYes, singing Hatikva still matters
To abandon the anthem is not to be inclusive, but to destroy the very idea for which Israel exists
View ArticleThe American ‘Zionist’ assault on Israel
Less hubris and more interest in why Israelis think what they do would go a long way to helping this relationship survive
View ArticleIsrael is neither Bibi nor the United States
If you evaluate Israeli politics through the prism of American democracy, you will be disappointed (and embarrassed). You will also miss what Israel is all about
View Article‘Occupation Über Alles’
Until American progressives accept that the occupation is not the central issue for Israelis, we're going to have a hard time reunifying the Jewish people
View Article‘We will guard and protect you’: Our forgotten promise to Israel
Why are so many of us – rabbis, backpackers, politicians, with their recklessness during a pandemic – willing to endanger the extraordinary Jewish life we've built here?
View Article‘Not Us’ + ‘Not You’ = ‘Not Anything’
The many Israelis who hold themselves apart from everyone else do no worse than the leaders who exempt themselves from the rules they impose on the rest of us. All to our detriment
View ArticleOnly here
As we heard our Jerusalem neighbors' Sabbath prayers, I thought: we are locked down in the one place Jews would want to be locked down
View ArticleEnd the Jewish State? Let’s try some honesty, first
To read Peter Beinart’s piece is to slog through an array of misrepresentations and omissions, and to feel dismissed because we know he hopes we don’t know enough to catch him
View ArticleWhat if Seth Rogen wasn’t (entirely) wrong?
If we want our young people to take Israel seriously, we must offer them a sophisticated discussion on peoplehood, history, and culture, not a list of wars and conflict
View ArticleWho will steer our ship?
With an increasingly fractured America, it is our job to ensure that Israeli society is one that thrives – one that does not unravel
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