The Magnes Zionist

It is truly sad, though hardly surprising, how a Goldstone-basher coalition has emerged in the last week, a coalition made up of Israeli war...

WARNING What you are about to be invited to is neither sponsored, nor supported, nor endorsed by J-Street. There may be left over food fro...

In a recent op-ed in the Forward , Prof. Jonathan Sarna, the foremost historian of American Jewry, attempts to explain why American Jews, e...

A smear campaign against J-Street has been launched by – who else? The Weekly Standard, Commentary and the Standwithus crowd. They a...

When Stephen Sondheim wrote "Have an eggroll, Mr. Goldstone" for the musical Gypsy , he was prescient. The Goldstone Report has no...

Jews worldwide are on the eve of the holiday celebrating the completion of the public reading of the Torah in synagogue. It is a lovely holi...

It took about a week to finish off Richard Goldstone and his Gaza Report. You have to give a lot of credit to the Netanyahu government. The...

When the Goldstone Report was published, the initial reaction of the Israeli government and the IDF was to push back hard. After all, last s...

When a young modern orthodox pulpit rabbi in Chicago calls for an unlimited right of return of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel, ...

Remember the time when Israel was praised as a beacon of democracy in an undemocratic region, when the world cheered tiny Israel fighting a ...

It's been two and a half weeks since my last post. During that period, I was pre-occupied with my father's final days and death, fol...

This has got to be one of the funniest stories of the dog days of August. Never Gordon, a leftwing professor at Ben-Gurion University, publi...

My favorite pair of analysts, Hussein Agha and Rob Malley, have published an important Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled, "The Two-...

Literary critic Adam Kirsch has made a career of taking potshots at cultural Zionists like Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein. Like the Mapai...

Joseph Dana and Mairav Zonszein have made a must-see video about the expulsion of the Palestinian families from their homes (see below) in ...

The World Congress of Jewish Studies, currently held in Jerusalem, had a session cosponsored by the rightwing think-tank, the Jewish Center ...

On the Voice of Israel this morning there was a news item about the eviction of the al-Ghawi and al-Hanoun families from their homes in Shei...

The Israel foreign ministry has released a hundred and fifty page defense of the IDF's "Operation Cast Lead". You can read abo...

  Gaza scene, January 2009   My eyes shall flow without cease Without respite Until the Lord looks down And beholds from heaven … ...