The Magnes Zionist

Sarah Kreimer, a former head of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and a pioneer in Jewish-Arab economic development, wrote ...

My shul-buddy Leon Wieseltier led off the New York Times Book Review yesterday with a devestating piece on The Second Plane , a bigoted an...

Last year I posted some excerpts of David Shulman's book Dark Hope , a memoir mostly about his work with Ta'ayush, the Jewish-Arab ...

On one side of Hebron, the police allow settlers to attack leftwing activists. See Meron Rapoport's article here . That is nothing comp...

Y-Net is reporting that around 50 leftwing activists who were on a weekly tour given by "Bne Avraham" organization had a confront...

I wish I could bring you a more cheerful post on the first day of hol ha-moed (intermediate days) of Passover, but what is cheerful about H...

Note: This post is dedicated to my former Hillel rabbi, Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf, one of the first American Jews to challenge the consensus thi...

When the Jews and the Palestinians have been liberated from their respective neuroses and nightmares, When the generation of the Six-Day W...

In Jewish law, a woman whose husband refuses to divorce her, or who disappears without a trace, is called an " agunah ", a woman ...

"Evangelical Christians and Jewish people will stand together, declaring a God of love, not hatred, and calling for peace, not violenc...

What do Pastor Reverend James Wright, Rabbi Mordecai Eliyahu, and Imam Sheik Yunus al-Astal share in common? Well, among other things, a pe...

Back in the late 80's and early 90's they were called, "Baker's Jewboys" -- the policy team of Dennis Ross, Aaron Mil...

Why the US Department of State wastes US taxpayers' money preparing a sloppy report on global anti-semitism is beyond me. Well, it is n...

Purim is a three-day affair in Jerusalem this year. However you look at it, the holiday is not exactly a favorite among Jewish progressives...

Several months ago, when I knew very little about Barack Obama I became friends with one of his major fundraisers, a Jewish lawyer living ...