The Magnes Zionist

After a long winter – actually, after several years of winters – the Palestinians today have taken an important step towards national libera...

I remember watching movies like the Ox-Bow Incident as a young boy. In those movies, innocent men were always being lynched, despite the int...

When I picked up the student newspaper on campus today, I saw a full page ad from the Vanguard Leadership Group , an African-American lea...

Since the murders of the members of the Fogel family in Itamar, the lives of the people of the neighboring village of Awarta have become he...

The amount of rubbish circulating on the internet from the left and the right about the Goldstone Washington Post op-ed is staggering. The r...

After two days of misrepresentations in the press, and after a conversation between the judge and Minister of Interior Eli Yishai that was g...

(What follows is speculation and has not been shown to, or approved by, Judge Goldstone.) In my post yesterday I wondered out loud why Judge...

It is the unfortunate fate of Judge Richard Goldstone to be condemned and praised for what he doesn’t write. The responses to his op-ed i...

On Monday night, the Jewish Voice for Peace at Brandeis presented the Brandeis Hillel Student Board with a petition with a thousand signatur...

(I wrote the below eight hours ago, way before the bus bombing. I will say something about that tomorrow. The only intelligent thing to say...

I got around to reading the latest version of the proposed law purporting to make Israelis who call for a boycott on Israel liable to civil ...

This is the third year I've run this post. Sorry, but I have to watch the Adventures of Robin Hood before I go hear the megillah being ...

Hi, it's Purim here in Shushan – oops, I mean it's about to be Shushan Purim here in Jerusalem – and once again, I am out to defend ...

There is a well-known midrash that Pharoah, at the time of the enslavement of Israel, would bathe in the blood of Israelite children to cur...

The murders at Itamar are just that -- murders. All decent people condemn them, or should condemn them. They are not to be condemned because...

Phil Weiss published parts of the rejection letter that Jewish Voice for Peace received from the Brandeis Hillel student board. A careful...

Here is the opening statement made by Jewish Voice for Peace in its bid to be recognized as a Jewish group under Hillel auspices. I think i...

While I am still waiting for Brandeis JVP to get me their press release after Hillel rejected their bid to be recognized as a Hillel student...

(NB: This is the first part of a two-part post.  Please read the second post later, which will include the statement of the JVP students who...

Charles Krauthammer, like Joan of Arc , hears voices -- only the voices he hears from "around the world, from Europe to America to L...

I had the privilege of meeting Rebecca Vilkomerson, director of Jewish Voice for Peace, in Jerusalem a few months ago. At the time I was de...

I didn't attend the plenary sessions at the J Street conference in DC; the last people I wanted to hear from were Kadima MKs and Dennis ...