The Magnes Zionist

Readers, this post appeared last week in Open Zion here  and was answered by Peter Beinart here. I plan to respond to his response later.  ...

Readers, this appeared in Open Zion here last week. Controversial speakers appearing on campus are as American as apple pie. So why are ...

Yesterday I was speaking with a young graduate student in Islamic studies, an orthodox Jew,  who told me that the question arose in one of h...

Update: As of 6 am, with 99% of the votes counted,  some of the numbers have changed. Lapid is up to 19! Labour is down to 15. And it is...

[Update: After writing below about my blogger colleague Yossi Gurevitz's explanation why he will vote for Meretz and not  for Hadash, I ...

Here's the gist of this election ad.  A wedding is taking place between two Israelis, one clearly Russian and one clearly of Mizarahi...

Chuck Hagel is going to be the next Secretary of Defense, unless there are surprises or skeletons in his closet.  Already his "oppositi...

The White House's trial balloon of former Republican senator Chuck Hagel  as Secretary of Defense has not yet burst, despite rocks throw...

For Phil Weiss 1. Communism represents the will of the Soviet peoples, and ipso facto it must be respected. 2. The morality of co...

Readers, this post appeared today on Open Zion here . Samuel Lebens cites some familiar arguments against boycotting Israel in genera...

There is now a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, thank God. The senseless military operation initiated by a blundering Israeli overreacti...

There is no "war" in Gaza. There is a military operation by one of the most advanced militaries in the world against a cadre of mi...

Before I left for synagogue in DC yesterday I resolved that I would not sit through a sermon that painted the Israelis as the innocent victi...

UPDATE: For the "Nate Silver wonks" among my readers the following piece by   Phan Nguyen  dissecting the IDF rocket numbers spin ...

One response to my post below was that I gave the Israeli government way too much credit for having a strategy in the current wave of hostil...

I don't know whether Nate Silver gives odds on wars, but the odds of Israel escalating its aggression against Gaza were higher than the ...

I suppose I should be pleased that Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, whose blog I occasionally read with pleasure, contrasted favorably the Magnes Zionist...