The Magnes Zionist

This evening I attended a reading of British Playwright Caryl Churchill's ten-minute performance piece, Seven Jewish Children; A Play fo...

In today's New York Times , under the headline, "A religious war in Israel's army, " Ethan Bronner reports that several of...

The NY Times ran a front page article on Amos Harel's piece in Haaretz about IDF war crimes (see below). The most interesting observa...

More stories are emerging daily from Israeli soldiers about indiscriminate skilling of civilians, defacement of property, and other war crim...

Anti-semitism means many things to many people, but inter alia it means to deny the right of Jews to self-expression, to demonize them, to ...

The New York Times has a liberal slant, but "liberal" means one thing in dealing when dealing with the US and most of the world, a...

Jerry's Note: I wrote this post last year. Since then the IDF has committed massive war crimes in Gaza. Aside from that, the same dreck ...

Barukh Goldstein's memory lives on. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, a leader of the rightwing settlers, said that while Barukh Goldstein was a tzad...

It has been a very busy semester, but with Spring Break, I can take a breather from my day job and comment on the news of the day – well, at...

It's Palestine Solidarity Week at the University of Maryland, and the student branch of ZOA is bringing Khaled Abu Toameh to campus. Abu...

Meron Benvenisti is always interesting, and today in Haaretz he makes for good reading. I think he overstates his case -- only some Pales...

With 99% of the polling places in, the Israeli Knesset elections have gone very well, in this writer's opinion. In fact, it is hard to s...

When Richard Silverstein and I went to the New York Review of Books to publish, or publicize, our jointly-authored statement on Gaza, the e...

A reader referred me to yet another one of Anthony H. Cordesman's analyses on the Middle East. Cordesman may be familiar to some readers...

Some of my readers say, "You are always quick to adopt the Palestinian position and to reject as untrue the IDF position. Why is that?...

Almost a year before the Gaza campaign, on Dec. 27, 2007, I wrote a post that began with an Israeli joke Two Israeli Jews meet each other on...

Hadash released a great set of four election commercials today, which feature conversations between a supporter of Meretz and a supporter of...

Last summer, Reform Judaism Magazine published a puff piece on the IDF's Code of Ethics, with just the right number of quotes from B...

February 2nd, 2009 Every day brings news of how fragile the Gaza ceasefire is.  An Israeli soldier was killed recently in an ambush. M...

Pninah Sharvit Baruch, the outgoing head of the section of the IDF legal department specializing in international law, is scheduled to teach...