The Magnes Zionist

In “ Democratic Norms, Diasporas, and Israel’s Law of Return ,” Alexander Yacobson and Amnon Rubenstein defend Israel’s Law of Return by po...

Coming posts for the Magnes Zionist include a continuing series of responses to arguments on behalf of the Law of Return. I promised that t...

The Magnes Zionist has learned that a group of participants on the current Birthright tour, which ended today, cancelled their plans to tou...

Prof. Daniel Friedmann, the conservative Israeli Attorney General, has been waging a war against the Israeli Supreme Court, which he consid...

Earlier today, after seeing some posters near my apartment of Hebron, I went to the website listed on the posters, activestills.org, and po...

As some of my readers know, I have been urging any of you who come to Israel/Palestine to visit Hebron to see for yourself what has happene...

According to Meron Rappoport reporting in today’s Haaretz on line here in Hebrew , and here in English , an appeal was presented two weeks ...

Paula Stern, a Barnard alumna, has organized a petition campaign to try to block Professor Nadia El-Haj’s professor’s tenure bid at her al...

A family weekend begins this afternoon, and so I will be away until Saturday Night. I would like to wish my readers, of whatever religion o...

Welcome, returning students for another year of Israel Advocacy. Remember – college campuses are intellectual war zones where you have to b...

In case you haven't heard, Walt and Mearsheimer were invited and then disinvited to speak before the Chicago Council of Global Affairs....

In 1950 the Israeli Knesset passed the Law of Return, which begins, “Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh.” As Joppke...

In an opinion piece published in Yediot today (and not yet translated into English for ynetnews.com, if it will be at all), former minister...

According to Haaretz today, Sheldon Adelson, a wealthy Jewish republican, has earmarked 60 million dollars for Birthright (Taglit), the pro...

There is a long tradition of non-statist zionism, from the cultural zionism of Ahad ha-Am (who at times seems to have embraced the idea of ...

My epal Sam Bahour sent me today a brilliant piece entiled the "The Middle East Peace Process Scam " by Henry Siegman. Siegman, a...

Here are two excellent insights into the labor zionist psyche from the Shabbat papers. The first is the opinion piece of veteran Haaretz co...

Ok, so I am leaving Vienna tonight to fly back to Galus, oops, Jerusalem. Please read the post for today that I worked on. , a Talmudic Pr...

The Hebron tactic By Amira Hass For about 25 minutes, they behaved liked lords of the land: One man, followed later by a young guy, ...

Worth quoting in full... Last update - 09:34 09/08/2007 Evacuation orders issued to settlers in four Hebron stores By Nadav Shrag...

“Two are holding a garment. One says, ‘I found it’; one says, ‘I found it.’ One says, ‘All of it is mine’; one says, ‘All of it is mine.’ T...

In my previous post, I talked about how one should go about doing Jewish ethics, and I suggested to look for the broad ethical assumption b...

How does one do Jewish ethics? That is, how does one appeal to the Jewish tradition for ethical guidance? Of course, one needn’t be intere...