The Magnes Zionist

These are sad days for Israel/Palestine, but today I got a kick out of a story that I thought at first was produced by the satirical mag, th...

A story reported last week by Inside Higher Education read like a McCarthyist nightmare:  A Brazilian university administrator urgently req...

Many people have different positions on the wisdom, and even the legitimacy, of tactics involving boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) ...

I was asked last summer by a friend what was my reaction to the Two States in  One Homeland initiative. My short answer was that it had som...

Several days ago, the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, which takes testimonies from IDF soldiers, published a booklet of over sixty testim...

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...