The Magnes Zionist

Well, although I googled "Amira Hess" in Hebrew before I posted the story below. I didn't google "Rapoport." I shou...

I just heard rumors that two of Haaretz's best investigative journalists, Amira Hass and Meron Rapoport, will no longer be employed by ...

I won't be posting or responding for a few days since I am flying home to Jerusalem tomorrow. I have received some critical comments on...

God punishes Jews who observe the Sabbath with a zillion emails when the Sabbath is over. So I learned that Norman Finkelstein was depor...

Over the past few months I have had some interesting discussions with a 94-year old Jewish supporter of Barack Obama. The supporter, a prom...

"Fascism" means many things to many people, and is, I grant, an overworked term. Leftists cry "fascist" so many times t...

Hell hath no fury like a settler criticized by the liberal Zionist. The settler looks disdainfully at the liberal Zionist and says, “We ar...

Jeffrey ("You-Can-Dump-On-Israel-As-Long-As-You-Are-A-Liberal-Zionist-Like-Me") Goldberg has an interview with Obama in Atlantic....

Leave it to Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz's out-of-touch rightwing US correspondent, to fall for a cooked-up story from the London Times abou...

Of all people, Bradley Burston in Haaretz summed up a lot of my feelings on this, the 60th anniversary of founding of the State of Israel, ...

There is a series in Haaretz called, "1948 Diaries," which today featured Judah Magnes's Zionist activities to prevent the u...

Haaretz is reporting that the Hebron settlers successfully disrupted the visit to Hebron by General William Frasier, the new road map impl...

This just in from Haaretz : The Israeli police in Hebron (a.k.a. the military wing of the Hebron settlers) have prevented Bne Avraham/Break...

For my sins, I am a member of a listserve called the "Jewish Faculty Roundtable." Too much of the listserve is devoted to Israel,...

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...