The Magnes Zionist

Jonathan Pollak was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail yesterday – for riding a bicycle in a demonstration that he did not orga...

It is hard to know which is more outrageous – the crimes settlers commit against humanity (yes, the Palestinians are human), or the crimes s...

I have some time to post since my 9 o'clock appointment with Joseph Dana had to be cancelled after he spent 30 hours in jail after being...

Arbitrary Arrest of Palestinian (and Israeli) Leaders Who Preach and Practice Non-Violence After the initial successes of the non-violent (o...

Human Rights Watch has published a 166 page report that compares Israel's treatment of Israelis and Palestinians in Area C (under Israel...

Martin van Crevald, one of Israel's leading military historians, and no peacenik, has published a piece in the Forward that makes the f...

Two more petitions against the rabbinical manifesto prohibiting the sale and rental of property to non-Jews, both originating from modern or...

The Israeli NGO "Breaking the Silence," composed of IDF veterans who record soldiers' testimonies about their behavior toward ...

In an op-ed on the JTA website Wayne Firestone, President and CEO of the Hillel, has articulated guidelines for local Hillels' sponsors...

Negative reactions to the rabbinic manifesto prohibiting the rental and sale of properties to Arabs continue to pour in. This post will disc...

Recently a large number of Israeli municipal rabbis published a "manifesto" that forbids the renting or selling of flats to non-Je...

Fink – "an unpleasant, contemptible person"; "a strikebreaker"; "an informer". The slang word is an Americani...

I have never accepted the view that "progressive Zionist" is an oxymoron (well, there goes half of my readership). For one thing, ...

Does Jewish Voice for Peace have a place at the Jewish communal table? I expect the answer to be "no" from people on the right win...

(Occasioned by Jerome Slater's article, the comments (mostly critical) of Slater on Mondoweiss, and Ahmed Moor's criticism .) Is...

For three years in a row, guests at the New York based Hebron Fund's Annual Dinner, which raises money for the Jewish settlement in Heb...

That's the question that Jeffrey Goldberg asks in a blogpost . He writes: …What does "Jerusalem" mean as a practical matter? D...

Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo . For the first time ever, American and Israeli Jews i...

As a rejoinder to Shalem Center's Rabbi Daniel Gordis, who hails from the United States, I publish here a translation of a recent Haaret...