The Magnes Zionist

I received Judge Goldstone's response to the House Resolution a few minutes ago as a pdf file. I OCR'ed, but there are probably many...

In "The Goldstone Report and Jewish Law", Rabbi Ido Rechnitz, Director of the Mishpetei Eretz Institute, displays his unfamiliarit...

Torrents of criticism have rained down upon the Goldstone Report. Some are by enthusiastic bloggers and journalists; others by law professor...

I will not rain on the parade, I will not rain on the parade, I will not rain on the parade …. So last night I was at the J Street opening, ...

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...