The Magnes Zionist

To the reader: At a time when the United States is pondering a strike against Syria, ostensibly to warn President Assad against further use ...

Rather than write up my take on the Kerry announcement (I’m basically with Harvard’s Steve Walt and Jewish Voice for Peace’s Sydney Levy )...

These days all eyes are focused on Egypt. Over the last few months all eyes have been focused on Syria. Wherever the next Arab crisis will b...

It’s open season on Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University in the pages of Haaretz , following the publication of his latest book, How and...

On Friday it was revealed that Rabbi Dr. Michael Broyde -- according to Haaretz , “arguably the single most prominent young Orthodox rabbi i...

Readers, this piece appeared today on Open Zion here . When I appealed to liberal Zionists to support the global BDS movement , I assumed...

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...