The Magnes Zionist

Dr. Max Klau and Rabbi Sid Schwartz (a rabbi for whom I have enormous respect)  have written an article arguing that young progressive Jews ...

Liberal Zionists don’t like the global BDS movement, but they also think that the Obama administration should get tough with the Netanyahu ...

In 1992, Bnai Brith International Corporation registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office the name “Hillel” to designate “associati...

Update, March 18, morning, Jerusalem: Israel is a Right Wing Nation. What is “center” in Israel is right in the rest of the world. What is...

Israel is not a liberal democracy that supports the flourishing of its citizenry.  In fact, it is not a democracy, since democracy requires ...

It has been my custom to reproduce this “Selling Purim to Progressives” post occasionally on Purim, with some modifications.  The last time ...

If you are progressive/liberal, a supporter of democratic Israel, and, for good measure, a Zionist, there are two parties you can conscienti...

The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, in some of whose programs I have participated,  runs one called the Muslim Leadership Initiative....

Several years ago, when Richard Joel was the president of Hillel International, the goal of Hillel was formulated as  “maximizing the numbe...

Most academics share a loyalty to the cherished ideals of their profession, including the ideals of  academic freedom and opposition to acad...

When I was growing up in the late fifties and  early sixties, my best friend’s mother was an outspoken Jewish liberal who embraced every pro...

“Even if one grants that the University of Illinois acted wrongly in the case of Stephen Salaita, the tweets themselves should be considere...

Since Corey Robin has done such a fine job of reporting and commenting on the Steven Salaita affair (Prof. Salaita’s job offer was revoked ...

Do you think that Hamas celebrates death, intends to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible, deliberately fires rockets from populated a...

We are Romans, mourning for the destruction of the Temple. We are Romans, born of a great civilization with a noble destiny. We rain havo...

Classical Zionism argued that the loss of political sovereignty involved the loss of Jewish political power, and hence the loss of Jewish po...

As the extent of the brutal and inhuman bombing of Gaza becomes known, it is hard for Jews who consider themselves relatively decent not to ...

I was sent today a blog post by a self-described “progressive” rabbi entitled, “ I’m Done Apologizing for Israel .” After repeating the stan...

The beginning of the current round of hostilities should be dated from Israeli actions in a Gaza tunnel that resulted in the deaths of six H...

The nightmare returns. It starts with Israelis killing Palestinians, Palestinians killing Israelis, whomever.  Israel decides that it “has t...

Moral chauvinism is the view that a certain people is morally superior to another. It’s hard to find peoples or nations that aren’t afflicte...