Jewish Word // BDS
Building a Boycott, Letter By Letter
Opinion // Let Foreign Policy Guide Your Vote
An experienced negotiator (not Trump) is the key to good relations with Israel.
Opinion // Don’t Despair: Israel’s Not a Failure
American Jews shouldn’t be disappointed that Israel’s not a liberal wonderland.
Opinion // The Shot Heard Round the World
The Israeli soldier who “neutralized” a terrorist is not the true villain.
From the Editor // May/June 2016
On occasion, tectonic shifts occur that break apart continents of political thought and reshape them into new ones
Jewish Routes // Vermont
The Jewish presence in Vermont can be traced back to land speculators in the 1760s, but a more substantial group, primarily German-speaking, started settling in the state in the 1840s
Talk of the Table // Parsley, Celery and Cilantro, Oh My!
The Passover seder is one of Judaism’s most simultaneously stable and mutable traditions: There are universally agreed-upon aspects of the ritual (the four questions, the bitter herb, the four cups of wine), and yet there are many variations
How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged
In August 2014, Ferguson, Missouri erupted in protests after the death of Michael Brown, while thousands of miles away, war raged in Israel and Gaza. From this confluence of events emerged a new movement of black-Palestinian solidarity. How did this alliance come to be?
Book Review // Sailor and Fiddler
I recently asked undergraduates in my Jewish literature class at George Washington University whether the name Herman Wouk meant anything to any of them. Not a single hand went up; not a single nod of recognition. Caine Mutiny? No response.
Opinion // The Cold, Hard Realist’s Case for Israel
The United States doesn’t need to get into a discussion of “shared values.”
An All-Women Symposium: The Missing XX-Factor
1| What more could be done to achieve
peace between Israelis and Palestinians?
2| What might women bring to the
peace process if more were included?
with Ruth Calderon,...
Ask the Rabbis // Proselytizing?
Should Jews advocate for their religious choices in conversation with Jews who have chosen differently?