March Comes In with AIPAC and Goes Out with J Street
March is bookended by two Israel-related conferences in Washington this year: the annual AIPAC Policy Conference, attended by about 13,000 people, was held the first...
Twenty (Jewish) Questions
by Kelley Kidd
Monday night, I sat in traffic in a taxi outside the Washington Convention Center as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gala...
Glenn Beck’s Wet Hot Israeli Summer
By Adina Rosenthal
Glenn Beck is making quite a splash in the Jewish state this summer. This August, Beck will host “Restoring Courage,” a three-part event...
Back to the Future: Obama’s Peace Plan
by Amanda Walgrove
In 1967, the 25th amendment to the constitution was ratified, the U.S. was in the thick of the Vietnam War, Benjamin Netanyahu first...
Back to the Future: Obama's Peace Plan
by Amanda Walgrove
In 1967, the 25th amendment to the constitution was ratified, the U.S. was in the thick of the Vietnam War, Benjamin Netanyahu first...
Tweeting AIPAC
Well, folks, another AIPAC Policy Conference has come and gone, and this year’s had no shortage of buzz. With a pair of high-profile speeches from...
Loving Israel The Right (Or Left) Way
By Amanda Walgrove
Last week, Sarah Palin visited Israel and met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other members of Israel's right-wing coalition, including Likud Chairman, Danny...
At J Street, Attempting to Redefine “Pro-Israel”
By Niv Elis
In its second-ever conference in Washington, DC this week, the self-described “Pro-Peace, Pro-Israel” lobby group J Street drew some 2,000 left-leaning Israel supporters.
By...
AIPAC vs. Seinfeld
by Daniel Kieval
I recently heard a lecture by J. J. Goldberg, senior columnist for The Forward, about the current state of American Judaism and its...
Jews Up For Grabs
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In advertising the November debate between Alan Dershowitz and Jeremy Ben-Ami, the 92nd St. Y framed it as a discussion over Israeli policy,...
Jeremy Ben Ami is the new Don Draper
By Sarah Breger
The interweb has been abuzz this past weekend over the publication of the NYT magazine profile of J Street.
Critics of the left-leaning Israel...
Rosen's Revenge
By Jeremy Gillick
In August of 2005 the United States made an unlikely indictment: following an FBI raid on AIPAC's offices, it accused Steve Rosen, one...